Pref. signed: Reginald Wingate, major-general, sirdar and governor-general of the Sudan. Vol. 2, chapter 1-2 not printed. "A certain number of copies of each chapter in this volume [vol. 2: Routes] ...

The Mahdist War was a British colonial war of the late 19th century, which was fought between the Mahdist Sudanese of the religious leader Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah, who had proclaimed himself the ...

Since science can now distinguish the incurably sick from the curable, mercy killing is justified—so goes the chatter in cocktail bars. The naked, woolly-haired Nuba tribesmen who live in the Otoro ...

British Empire forces, which had driven 70 miles into Eritrea from the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, last week took Agordat (see map, p. 23). This town, 2,000 feet up on the Eritrean plateau, is strategically ...

List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology of events -- Maps -- 1. The "abode of the blacks" -- 2. Lords of mountain and savanna : the origins and history of the Fur State to 1874 -- 3. The ends ...