The story of the men who explored, pillaged, evangelized- and eventually awakened- the vast unknown spaces of Central Africa, from the slaving days of the 1850's to the final conquest of the Nile in 1900. Includes an Index.

(Key Words: Earth, Zanzibar, Sir Garnet Woseley, Queen Victoria, Lake Victoria, Nile, Rivers, Africa, Uganda, The Sudan, John Hanning Speke, Slave Trade, Omderman, Mutesa, The Mahdi, Dr. David Livingstone, Abdullah Khalifa, General George Gordon, Emin, Egypt, Cairo, Sir Samuel Baker).