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Sacred Nile Hardcover – October 1, 2021

by Chester Higgins (Photographer), Betsy Kissam (Contributor)
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Sacred Nile is the story of our collective spiritual imagination and practice. Chester Higgins celebrates the agency of people of African descent and their influence on the foundation of Western religion. His images illustrate how faith migrated up and down the River Nile from Ethiopia to Egypt leaving vestiges of ancient practice in today's worship. This visual portrayal of faith reexamines our spiritual beginnings.
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    March Forth Imprint
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    October 1, 2021
  5. Dimensions
    12 x 1 x 9.3 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0578851180
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0578851181
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“An epic personal and spiritual journey expressed through images of unearthly and majestic beauty. Higgins’s iconic photography, supported by revelatory text, discovers in Africa a common ancestor for many of today’s major religions.” --David Henry Hwang, playwright

“This visually stunning book also drops some serious knowledge about the cultural and religious connections between the lands that border the Nile; Ethiopia, Nubia, and Egypt from the dawn of history down to the present time. This knowledge is still rejected by many mainstream Egyptologists, but as they become more familiar with other African cultures, religious traditions, and languages, the connections described in this book will be confirmed in academia.” --Solange Ashby, Egyptologist, Barnard College

“In this collection of breathtaking photographs, Chester Higgins takes us to the African source of the West’s spiritual heritage. These images transport us to a different time and place. There are the stories of our religious roots.” --Ari Goldman, director, Scripps-Howard Program in Religion, Journalism and the Spiritual Life, Columbia University

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ March Forth Imprint (October 1, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 232 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0578851180
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0578851181
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.5 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12 x 1 x 9.3 inches
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Tianja
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The pictures are breathtaking. Things I remember from my trip. Writing is so important descriptive
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Orel Protopopescu
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Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2021
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The breathtaking photos alone speak volumes, enhanced by a scholarly, ground-breaking text co-written by the renowned photographer, Chester Higgins, with Betsy Kissam. Their travels down the Nile brought them to the sacred roots of human spiritual yearning, to a major source of culture itself that spread, like our DNA, from Africa all over the world. Anyone interested in photography, architecture, religion, archaeology, and/or the history of humankind should buy this deeply felt book. It's beautiful, poetic and scholarly, a rare combination.

Orel Protopopescu, author of Dancing Past the Light: The Life of Tanaquil Le Clercq
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5.0 out of 5 stars Masterpiece
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I received your amazing book and sat and looked at every photo with admiration. This book is successful in capturing the true beauty and grace of East Africa through your lenses. I have to say this book did something that many many writers and anthropologists fail to do. It captured how religion came to be used to control people and wipe out traditional African religions by teaching these religions as bad or evil. and using Christianity as a weapon to control minds and destroy African kingdoms and nations. This book showed how this religions are still around but their existence fades away through iconography and written proofs. really a masterpiece
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I received your amazing book and sat and looked at every photo with admiration. This book is successful in capturing the true beauty and grace of East Africa through your lenses. I have to say this book did something that many many writers and anthropologists fail to do. It captured how religion came to be used to control people and wipe out traditional African religions by teaching these religions as bad or evil. and using Christianity as a weapon to control minds and destroy African kingdoms and nations. This book showed how this religions are still around but their existence fades away through iconography and written proofs. really a masterpiece
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Baba Wesley Gray
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent African historical and pictorial book that is destined to become a great classic
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This is an excellent and timely African historical and pictorial book, that will prove to be a classic and a gift of choice for many years to come...As well as being embraced by the intellectual and academic communities worldwide.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent African historical and pictorial book that is destined to become a great classic
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This is an excellent and timely African historical and pictorial book, that will prove to be a classic and a gift of choice for many years to come...As well as being embraced by the intellectual and academic communities worldwide.
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Very informative and good quality
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Cynthia Henderson
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome photographs with historical text
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2021
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This book is an eye-opener as to the REAL historical perspective of the cultures and religions of the Nile. Fabulous coffee table book to discuss with friends, families & children. I highly recommend this illuminating collection of exquisite photographs by Chester Higgins.
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Danilo
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book and Photos.
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Stunning Photos. Well written information.
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Jules Allen
5.0 out of 5 stars Rare view of powerful and elegant images
Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2022
Chester Higgins most recent book, Sacred Nile, is a work in which image and text combine to offer a rare view of powerful and elegant images.

His photographs are profound and offer an opportunity to explore a culture and place that has rarely been seen in this light. The balance between image and text reveals an insight and depth that is unprecedented.

I have spent some glorious moments with these photographs and the text, and I continue to discover and re-discover images of Africa previously unimagined.

— Jules Allen Photography
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5.0 out of 5 stars Rare view of powerful and elegant images
Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2022
Chester Higgins most recent book, Sacred Nile, is a work in which image and text combine to offer a rare view of powerful and elegant images.

His photographs are profound and offer an opportunity to explore a culture and place that has rarely been seen in this light. The balance between image and text reveals an insight and depth that is unprecedented.

I have spent some glorious moments with these photographs and the text, and I continue to discover and re-discover images of Africa previously unimagined.

— Jules Allen Photography
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Great condition, well preserved/looked after. Happy to have it. Thanks.
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