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WHEN Major Cheesman entered upon his duties as H.B.M. Consul in north-west Abyssinia, he found that no large-scale maps of the Abyssinian portion of the Blue Nile were available. He was also informed that the course of the Blue Nile was the only part of Africa remaining which offered opportunity for pioneer exploration. During his nine years' residence in the country, he took full advantage of the opportunity and of the permission given him to explore. In this volume he gives his readers a record of his journeys. Not only is his account of special interest at the moment, but it is also of permanent scientific value as the story of the first visit of a European to the islands of Lake Tana and of the first journey to be made down the Nile through unexplored country to the point reached by previous explorers, who had entered Abyssinia by way of the Sudan.
Lake Tana and the Blue Nile:
an Abyssinian Quest. By Major R. E. Cheesman. Pp. xiv + 400 + 25 plates. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1936.) 18s. net.
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Lake Tana and the Blue Nile. Nature 137, 683 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137683d0
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