Alan Moorehead : War Correspondent and Author of Popular Histories

July 22, 1910 — September 29, 1983

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A war correspondent and author of popular histories, most notably two books on the nineteenth-century exploration of the Nile, The White Nile (1960) and The Blue Nile (1962). Australian-born, he lived in England, and Italy, from 1937.

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July 22, 1910

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September 29, 1983

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• Wikipedia: Alan McCrae Moorehead

• NYTimes.com: Alan Moorehead

• ADB.ANU.edu.au: Alan McCrae Moorehead

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