This bibliography provides a comphrehensive survey of the literature relating to the many political, cultural, economic and developmental aspects of the Nile. All disciplines are covered, including geography, history, anthropology and medicine; travel literature, planning and project literature produced by government bodies, international agencies and consultancy firms, and literature on basin-wide planning, water agreements and water need assessments for sectors and countries. If the Nile basin countries are to pursue co-operation and development successfully, dissemination of information about the river to all countries is crucial.

Geoffrey Moorhouse is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Royal Geographical Society; he is the author of several best-selling travel and history books. Kazuyoshi Nomachi is an internationally acclaimed photographer and the author of several books on travel in Asia and Africa.