La Légende du Nil : les découvreurs racontent

No adventure novel, no blockbuster movie can match the travel diaries of these explorers. Bruce, Burton, Speke, Baker, Alexine Tinne, Livingstone, Stanley... all of them had something of the knights of the Grail quest. Here are their most beautiful pages. They tell the story of the crossing of the savannahs crushed by the sun, the bivouac around a fire, the meeting with the African chiefs and the slave hunters, the rivers in flood and the walls of earth, the echoes of the bush, the immense waves of the herds of wildebeest... One understands, reading them, that the search for the sources of the Nile remains the archetype of the contemporary adventure.