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Soil surveyor and reconnaissance soil surveyor with Hunting Technical Services Limited on the Roseires Dam Project , Sudan , 1962–64. Bitten by poisonous viper one week after arriving in Sudan. Guest of the Mahdi’s grandson on Aba Island in the White Nile . Adventures along the Sudan-Ethiopian border. More snake incidents and a close encounter with a saw-scaled viper. The nomadic life of a reconnaissance soil surveyor. I start to realise that the physical and chemical properties of the soils in the Blue and White Nile valleys reflect the depositional history of those rivers, and not the present climate or the underlying geology. I decide to move to Australia to learn more about field-based soil science, a field in which Australia then led the world.
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Williams, M. (2016). Blue and White Nile Valleys, Sudan (1962–1964). In: Nile Waters, Saharan Sands. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25445-6_5
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