In The Blue Nile, Alan Moorehead continues the classic, thrilling narration of adventure he began in The White Nile, depicting this exotic place through the lives of four explorers so daring they can be considered among the world's original adventurers -- each acting and reacting in separate expeditions against a bewildering background of slavery and massacre, political upheaval and all-out war.

    

    They were doing all right at it, too, until she came along. She was a famous news photographer, and when she'd written asking to cover their latest safari she'd signed herself A.M. D'Allesandro. Naturally they'd assumed she was a man. So when she turned up looking like she was off for a fashionable Roman cocktail party, it looked like trouble. It was, too, but not the kind that any of them had anticipated.