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MacLaren Roy |
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Titolo |
Canadians on the Nile, 1882-1898 : being the adventures of the voyageurs on the Khartoum Relief Expedition and other exploits / / Roy MacLaren |
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Vancouver, : University of British Columbia Press, c1978 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-22683-9 |
9786613226839 |
0-7748-5792-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xix, 184 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, facsimile, map, portraits |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Canadians - Sudan - History |
Sudan History 1821-1881 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-179) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Photographic Credits -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Egyptian Prologue -- England in Egypt -- Enter Wolseley -- Gordon and the Sudan -- Red River Interlude -- The Voyageurs to Egypt! -- Up the Nile -- The Journey's End -- Advance and Retreat -- Canada and the Nile Expedition -- Reculer pour Mieux Sauter -- On the Road to Dongolay -- The Desert Railway -- Canada on the Nile -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Canadians on the Nile, 1882-1898 is a lively description of Canada's romantic and little known involvement in the greatest imperial drama of Queen Victoria's later years. Chosen for their unique skills, 400 English- and French-speaking Canadian voyageurs transported imperial forces up the Nile in a daring attempt to rescue "Chinese" Gordon, besieged in Khartoum. A generation later, their imperial work was completed by another Canadian, Sir Percy Girouard, who built the desert railway which enabled Kitchener to capture Khartoum in 1898. Offering fresh insights to the general reader as well as to historians and students, this authoritative work is also a perceptive, exciting, and humorous account of a curious way station along the meandering road to Canadian nationhood. |
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