Canadians on the Nile 1882-1898: Being the Adventures of the Voyageurs on the Khartoum Relief Expedition and Other Exploits
by: MacLaren, Roy

Hardcover. Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 184 pages, b&w illustrations. "Chosen for their unique skills, 400 Canadian voyageurs transported imperial forces up the Nile in a daring attempt to rescue "Chinese" Gordon, former governor-general of the Sudan, at Khartoum. A generation later, another Canadian, Sir Percy Girouard, built the desert railway enabling Kitchener to capture Khartoum in 1898." Clean copy.