River of Life (Upper and Lower): The River of Life

Author: Emil Ludwig
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Publish Date: 2003-05-01
Features: This book is a fable about life, an impassioned ode to the vast river of human nature, and a magnificent epic of the diverse civilization along the river basin. The Nile: Life's River is both a geographical book and a historical one. It is the biography of a great river, as well as the biography of the peoples and civilizations that live along its basin. In the preface, the author states that he wrote the biography of the Nile as if chronicling the life of a great figure, depicting its childhood in the primeval forest, its youthful struggles, failures, efforts, and successes. This is not only a spatial process but also a temporal journey; it gathers all its tributaries, flows through the desert, and at the end of time and space, creates the Egyptian civilization that embodies both glory and decline. The Nile is the river of life, and it creates the river of life.