{"product_id":"the-nile-in-1904-willcocks","title":"The Nile in 1904","description":"\u003ch2\u003eA historical engineering portrait of Sudan’s rivers\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eExplore the Blue Nile, White Nile, Atbara and the river north of Khartoum in Sir William Willcocks’s 1904 study. This is a basin-wide engineering book, not an exclusively Sudanese history: it also covers Egypt, Ethiopia and the wider Nile system.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFree English reflowable EPUB.\u003c\/strong\u003e Complete text, original maps and diagrams, linked contents, appendices and index, with a new introduction explaining its Sudan connection. Wide tables are arranged in narrow panels with repeated row references for smaller screens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHistorical viewpoints and engineering proposals are preserved as evidence, not modern advice. Digital download only; no shipping and no audiobook.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003csection style=\"max-width:42rem;margin:1.5rem auto;font-family:Georgia,serif;line-height:1.7\"\u003e\u003ch2\u003eRead a sample\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChapter I — The Nile\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e—In the introduction to his brilliant essay on the Hydrology of the Nile [1] , an essay, which, though written in 1865, foreshadowed much of what we know to day, Lombardini remarked, with much truth that, no river in the world lends itself to hydrological studies on so majestic a scale as the Nile. The most interesting river of the ancient world, it is still the most interesting river of our time; and, in spite of all that ancient and modern discoveries have unfolded, its discharges are to-day more difficult to unravel and weave together than those of any other stream in either hemisphere. These discharges are still a mystery, and it will need years and years of patient observation and study, at the hands of the Sudan Irrigation Department, to enable us to state with exactitude why its floods rise and fall with such regular and stately precision, why they are never sudden and abrupt, and why its summer supplies can never be completely cut off even in their traverse of over 3000 kilometres through the burning and parched Sahara. Though the mystery of the Nile is far from being solved to-day, still an enormous step in advance has been made by the publication of Sir William Garstin’s Report on the Basin of the Upper Nile [2] . This Report not only contains the results of three years’ observations of the Egyptian Survey Department in the Sudan, of Sir William Garstin’s own observations and studies, but also a mass of information of the Nile and its tributaries collected by Capt. H. G. Lyons. R. E., through four years of uninterrupted study. Those who know the intelligence and method with which Capt. Lyons works, will rate this information at its proper value.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLombardini gathered together all the information available at the time that Sir Samuel Baker announced the existence of the Albert Nyanza shortly after Speke and Grant had proclaimed to the world that the Victoria Nyanza was the true source of the Nile. From the information then available he deduced the laws and operations of the great river. About twenty years later, just before the rebellion in the Sudan closed the Nile to the civilized world, a German savant, Joseph Chavanne [3] , in his book on the rivers of Africa, collected and tabulated on clear and methodical lines much of the information available in 1883. Though many of his facts are erroneous, his method is clear and his ideas just. Sir William Garstin, in his Report, has developed the information at his disposal on such practical lines as are needed to study the question of insuring an abundant supply of water to the Nile in Egypt during the times of low supply.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e\u003ch2\u003eInside the book\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original plates include river maps, cross sections and water-level graphs. The new cover is abstract artwork, not a historical photograph.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cfigure style=\"max-width:42rem;margin:1.5rem auto;text-align:center\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/4798\/0280\/files\/nile-in-1904-illo012lg.png?v=1791727335\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/4798\/0280\/files\/nile-in-1904-illo012lg.png?v=1791727335\" alt=\"Original Nile basin map, 1904\" style=\"display:block;width:100%;height:auto;margin:auto\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eOriginal Nile basin map, 1904. Tap to enlarge.\u003c\/figcaption\u003e\u003c\/figure\u003e\u003cfigure style=\"max-width:42rem;margin:1.5rem auto;text-align:center\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/4798\/0280\/files\/nile-in-1904-illo042lg.png?v=1791727342\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/4798\/0280\/files\/nile-in-1904-illo042lg.png?v=1791727342\" alt=\"Original White and Blue Nile cross sections, including Duem, Wad Medani and Khartoum\" style=\"display:block;width:100%;height:auto;margin:auto\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cfigcaption\u003eOriginal White and Blue Nile cross sections, including Duem, Wad Medani and Khartoum. 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