Canadians on the Nile, 1882-1898 : being the adventures of the voyageurs on the Khartoum Relief Expedition and other exploits / Roy MacLaren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacLaren, Roy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadians--Sudan--History.

Canadians.

Sudan--History--1821-1881.

Sudan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 184 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, facsimile, map, portraits

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, c1978.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-179) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-22683-9

9786613226839

0-7748-5792-7

OCLC:

243614104