Incidents on a journey through Nubia to Darfoor (Registro nro. 119244)
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| LC control number | 05009432 |
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | DT |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Ensor, F. Sidney, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1841-1893 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Incidents on a journey through Nubia to Darfoor |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2026-04-23 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Galo Flordelis (This file was produced from images generously made available by Google Books) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Incidents on a journey through Nubia to Darfoor" by F. Sidney Ensor is a travel narrative written in the late 19th century. It follows a British civil engineer surveying a railway route from the Nile to El Fasher via the Wady Milkh, mixing route-finding with keen observations on desert geography, local societies, and the demands of caravan life. Expect practical detail, dry wit, and vivid sketches of people and places rather than romantic adventure.<br/><br/>The opening of the work sets the mission: after Darfur’s incorporation into Egyptian rule, a railway survey is ordered, with the Wady Milkh proposed as the most direct line. The party moves up the Nile to Wady Halfa and beyond, where Ensor contrasts barren, rock-strewn reaches and rapids with the fertile, irrigated banks of Dongola, pausing for wry episodes—a destitute Italian drifter, sleepy donkey-boys, and the hazards of desert stages. In New Dongola he sketches a meagre bazaar, a gifted silversmith, easygoing soldiers, and a chaotic but generous dinner with dancing-girls, before turning to the ruins of Old Dongola and a memorable Coptic priest who lives on dates and Scripture. He details markets, white ants, camel behavior, and the formidable logistics of water, tents, and provisions, even costing the expedition. Setting out along the Wady Milkh, the caravan celebrates a birth with a fantasia, encounters gazelles and a stray donkey, and reaches the wells of Mahtool and Sotaire, where Khababbeesh clans gather for a tentative reconciliation. The section closes with a moonlit village performance and a tender portrait of a young herdswoman as the survey lines are laid toward the interior. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | London: W. H. Allen & Co., 1881 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Sudan -- Description and travel |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Nubia -- Description and travel |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=T-oTAAAAIAAJ">https://books.google.com/books?id=T-oTAAAAIAAJ</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78526">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78526</a> |
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