Blue Nile: Ethiopia's River of Magic and MysteryThe author was invited by the National Geographic Society to join its 1999 expedition, which hoped to be the first to descend the Blue Nile in a single, uninterrupted trip from its source to the Sudan border and its join with the White Nile. |
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