The River War - An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
https://librivox.org/the-river-war-an-account-of-the-reconquest-of-the-sudan-by-winston-churchill/
Of the few short minutes I listened to, it sounded like a really good recording.
I believe you. Churchill’s introduction, which covers the rise of the Mahdi and Gordon’s defeat at Khartoum, is absolutely lyrical. That especially includes his description of the Nile and the importance of the Nile in North African culture, without which North African culture would hardly exist. The most remarkable thing is that Winston wrote the book when he was 24 years old