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The editorial board argues both books illuminate the convulsive changes in Africa—Moorehead through accounts of explorers who unraveled the Nile’s sources, and Dinesen through further recollections of life among Africans. 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MooreheadShadows on the Grassby I sak Dnesce2  \nEDITORIAL BOARD  \nJOHN MASON BROWN·BASIL DAVENPORT·CLIFTON FADIMAN·GILBERT HIGHET  \n..A DOUBLE SELECTION  \nwI△THEN these two books came up before our Editorial Board atVVits last meeting,it was at once apparent that they wouldmake an ideal Double Selection because both are absorbing andeach in its own way sheds new light on the convulsive changes,soominous for the future,that are now taking place in Africa.In THEWHITE NILE,Mr.Moorehead has written a fascinating account ofthe indomitable 19th-century explorers,adventurers and soldierswho finally solved a mystery that had intrigued and baffled Herod-otus,Nero and Ptolemy-what were the sources of the Nile?It is,reports John Mason Brown,\"one of the most brilliant of the season'sbooks...a stirring background for today's uncertainties in Africa.\"  \nMembers who enjoyed Isak Dinesen's OUT OF AFRICA-an earlierClub Selection and,to many,her finest book-will welcomeSHADOws ON THE GRASS.For it consists of further enchantingrecollections of her life in Africa and of the natives with whom shelived and worked.\"It has the same qualities that have made herother books great,\"reports Basil Davenport,\"the keenness of obser-vation,the recognition of character in man and beast,the reverencefor the power of the word.\"  \nTHE WHITE NILE  \nREPORT BY  \nJohn Mason Brown  \nUT OF DARKEST AFRICA has come one ofthe most brilliant of the season's books,Alan Moorehead's The White Nile.To say thatit is a fascinating picture of exploration and adventure is to do The White Nile onlyfractional justice.It is that.But it is much more.For what is excitingly explored in Mr.Moorehead's pages is not only the long-hidden sources of the Nile and the life of thepeoples living there but the hearts and minds,the motives and bickerings,the jealousiesand grandeurs,the smallness and bigness of the indomitable if difficult men—Burton,Speke and Grant,Baker,Livingstone and Stanley,Gordon,Gessi and Kitchener—whofrom 1856 to 1900 risked or gave their lives to exploring or securing the river's upperreaches.  \nNo secret of the earth's surface was longer or better kept than that of the origins of theNile.Where the great brown river came from,that kept pouring out of the desert and yearlyoverflowed its banks at the Delta under a scorching sun and without the reenforcement ofa single tributary and scarcely a drop of rain,was one of the world's oldest mysteries untilbarely a century ago.Herodotus had attempted to solve it but was able only to ascendthe Nile as far as the cataract at Aswan before he was forced to turn back.So had Nero,who sent out an expedition which got no farther than the wastes of Nubia,now knownas the Sudan.Then there was Ptolemy's much-disputed map,done in the 2nd century  \nA.D.,in which the Nile was made to arise from two lakes which in turn were wateredfrom a high range of the Mountains of the Moon.But were there other lakes,or were allthe lakes one lake?Was there another range?And how did the lakes and mountains fitinto the pattern of the Nile?Down the long centuries the mystery remained unsolved,\"the greatest geographical secret after the discovery of America,\"as tantalizing,untildisclosed,as the peaks of the Himalayas,the wastes of the Antarctic,and the hidden sideof the moon in our times.  \nThe famous meeting of Stanley and Living-stone.\"I would have run to him,\"wroteStanley,\"only I was a coward in the presenceof such a mob—would have embraced him,but that I did not know how he would receive  \nme.So I did what moral cowardice and falsepride suggested was the best thing—walkeddeliberately up to him,took off my hat,andsaid,'Dr.Livingstone,I presume?''Yes,'hesaid,with a kind smile,lifting his cap slightly.”  \nJohn Hanning Speke,whose claim to have beenthe first to discover the source of the Nile wa","cbCaicF4Y0z9rCID","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicF4Y0z9rCID","pdf",2554459,32,"English","# Book-of-the-Month Club News\n## Double selection for January\n## Editorial board recommendations\n## The White Nile review and historical exploration\n## Shadows on the Grass overview","[{\"question\":\"What are the two January books selected in the December 1960 issue?\",\"answer\":\"Alan Moorehead’s The White Nile and Isak Dinesen’s Shadows on the Grass are the two January selections.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the editorial board call the selections an ideal double choice?\",\"answer\":\"Because both books are described as absorbing and as shedding new light on the changes taking place in Africa, each in its own way.\"},{\"question\":\"What mystery does The White Nile focus on?\",\"answer\":\"The origins or sources of the Nile, described as an old and long-unsolved geographical secret.\"}]","Book-of-the-Month Club - News - December 1960 | PDF",1790645569,49]