The Nile: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture

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“This comprehensive volume provides information to help readers gain a better understanding of the Nile’s past and recent political history… A great resource for students and teachers interested in the Nile’s history, culture, and geography.”

This book allows students to learn about the Nile, the world’s longest river, and its larger role in society in the past, present, and future. For thousands of years, the Nile River has been the most important natural resource for Egyptians and other Africans who live along its banks, bringing life to an otherwise arid and bleak desert region. Egypt’s civilizations could not have flourished without the Nile.

This massive riverway has enormous physical, cultural, religious, and political ramifications. This one-volume encyclopaedia covers a wide range of Nile River topics, from ancient irrigation techniques to nineteenth-century exploration, and from current environmental controversies to concerns about man-made Lake Nasser.

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Readers will be able to explore beyond the physical aspects of the world’s longest river to achieve an understanding of the Nile River’s larger role in society.

After a preface and introduction that provides general background information on the source, tributaries, and mouth of the Nile, the encyclopedia presents thematic essays that cover topics such as the Nile’s physical geography; history; environmental issues and controversies; culture, religion, and legend; and politics. More than 100 entries cover key individuals, specific locations, geology and structure, significant expeditions, gods and deities, and folklore related to the Nile.

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In addition, the work provides an appendix of primary document excerpts from explorers’ journals and more recent legislation on damming as well as an appendix of place names, interesting sidebars, and a helpful chronology of key events.

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Presents primary documents that allow students to delve deeper into the past and more recent political history of the Nile and serve librarians and teachers in their support of curricula standards Combines historical, cultural, and geographical perspectives on the Nile River–in the long-ago past through to modern day–into one comprehensive reference work Contains additional features, such an appendix of place names and a glossary of terms, that provide ready-reference material