The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River

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A spectacular modern-day adventure along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea
Inspired by Alan Moorehead's classic river chronicles, The Blue Nile and The White Nile, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison bought a plank-board boat, summoned a childhood buddy who'd never been off American soil, and set out from Uganda, paddling the White Nile on a quest across Sudan toward Cairo.
In the vein of Redmond O'Hanlon and Ryszard Kapuscinski, the story of Morrison's four-thousandmile trip is a gripping blend of travel narrative and reportage that reveals this vast region's riches, troubles, and paradoxes. Morrison follows the river as the locals do-by boat, bus, and on foot-past the contested borderlands of Sudan, where a hidden oil war still rages, to the air-conditioned cafA(c)s of Khartoum and through modern Cairo, where control of the Nile outranks the Iranian nuclear program as a national security issue.
By turns funny and frightening, The Black Nile is an engrossing and thoughtful contemporary portrait of a complex region in profound transition.

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Author:   Dan Morrison
Publisher:   Viking Books
Imprint:   Viking Books
Dimensions:   Width: 22.90cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 16.30cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9780670021987

ISBN 10:   0670021989
Pages:   307
Publication Date:   12 August 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock at warehouse  
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