Alan Moorhead — The White Nile

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1961. Cloth. A scarce early impression of a popular exploration of the impact of Nile explorers upon the Scramble for Africa, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. A scarce early impression of The While Nile, a popular history on the nineteenth century explorers on the river Nile, written by Australian war correspondent Alan Moorhead. The fifth impression, published in 1961, first published in 1960. In the publisher's original red cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Contains a photographic frontispiece, all twenty-eight other photographic plates, and a folding map showing the different Nile expeditions. Collated complete. Among the most popular non-fiction writers of his generation, previously writing a Sunday Times prize winning history on Gallipoli, Moorhead's White Nile tracks the impact of European explorers such as David Livingstone and John Speke on the notorious Scramble for Africa. Moorhead was a renowned foreign correpsondent of the Daily Express, and a friend of fellow journalist Ernest Hemmingway. In the publisher's original red cloth, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart, with minimal marks to boards. Slight bumping to the head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities. Dust wrapper is mostly bright and clean with slight dulling, and rubbing to wrapper joints and edges. Nicking to wrapper head and tail of the spine, and to the extremities, with faint spots to front fly leaf. Spots to wrapper reverse. End papers are clean. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine . Ill.: Various. Near Fine/Very Good.