Martin Williams's "The Nile Revealed"

Martin Williams is professor emeritus and adjunct professor of earth sciences at the University of Adelaide. His many books include When the Sahara Was Green: How Our Greatest Desert Came to Be; Nile Waters, Saharan Sands: Adventures of a Geomorphologist at Large; and The Nile Basin: Quaternary Geology, Geomorphology, and Prehistoric Environments.

He applied the "Page 99 Test" to his new book, The Nile Revealed: A Deep History of Earth’s Longest River, with the following results:

Page 99 briefly mentions some of the stages in human cultural evolution.

Page 99 is the start of the introduction to Part IV of The Nile Revealed entitled "Human Adaptations to the Nile." It provides a partial summary of some of the main stages in human cultural history, starting with the Early Stone Age. There is no mention on page 99 of the Nile, so that this page only offers a glimpse into one of the many topics covered in this book.

The Nile Revealed: A Deep History of Earth's Longest River explores the many ways in which the Nile and its major tributaries have influenced the plants, animals and human societies dependent on the Nile from earliest times until the present, and concludes with an assessment of how the Nile might respond to future change.

Visit Martin Williams's website.

The Page 99 Test: When the Sahara Was Green.

--Marshal Zeringue