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The Nile, flowing south to north through Egypt to the Mediterranean, is more than 4,000 miles long, by some measures the world’s longest river, though by others a few miles shorter than the Amazon River. Travelers from antiquity onward could trace it upriver as far as Khartoum in Sudan. There it splits into two feeder rivers: the Blue Nile, flowing from Lake Tana in Ethiopia and known to the West since the 17th century, and the White Nile, which dissipates into a vast and impenetrable swamp, the Sudd, that at least through the 19th century no one could figure out how to navigate. The only fe...

The 19th-century British explorers Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke were mismatched from the start, writer Candice Millard explains.

“My family has too many,” says the author, whose latest narrative history is “River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile.”

Alan Moorehead was born in Melbourne, Australia. He travelled to England in 1937 and became a renowned foreign correspondent for the London Daily Express. Writer, world traveller, biographer, essayist, journalist, Moorehead was one of the most successful writers in English of his day. During World War II he won an international reputation for his coverage of campaigns in the Middle East and Asia, the Mediterranean and Northwest Europe. He died in 1983.

6 book recommendations from Bruce McCall Courtesy image Today's best articles Daily business briefing , The New Yorker . The gaps in my formal education led to more than a few gaps in my tally of the classics. At age 40, I had never read Madame Bovary. My wife, Polly, rightly insisted that I right this wrong. The book is romantic as hell, and just as tragic. Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow (2010). I once accompanied Ron on research expeditions to Princeton and Valley Forge, talking nonstop (mostly me asking him questions and listening). I was relatively new to American history before rea...