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Scared, Mysterious, Powerful, the Blue Nile has carved a deep channel through human history. From its source in the wild Ethiopion highlands, this river passes through some of the most untamed country on Earth as it rushes toward its desert rendezvous with the White Nile in Sudan. More than one adventurer has perished in the Blue Nile Gorge whose hazards range from raging rapids to menacing crocodiles to armed bandits. When National Geographic invited Virginia Morell to join its 1999 expedition-which hoped to be the first to descend the river in a simple, uninterrupted trip from its source to the Sudan border-she jumped at the chance to revisit Ethiopia, a land she'd come to love during a sojourn many years before. The only African country never colonized by Europeans, its history spans more than two millennia from King Menelik, said in legend to be the son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, to Ras Tafari, better known to the West as Haile Selassie, who ruled until his overthrow in 1974. Hard Back Ed with dust jacket 2001
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