Publisher Description
Investigative journalist Dan Morrison hired a boat builder, summoned a childhood buddy, and set out paddling from Jinja, Uganda, down the White Nile toward Cairo. Four thousand miles, two companions, and several other means of local conveyance later, he emerged on the Mediterranean. The story Morrison tells of this spectacular—and spectacularly harrowing—journey is a mash-up of narrative travel writing, investigative reportage, and current history, resulting in a thoughtful, funny, and frightful trip across a region whose people are trying to claw their way from war and poverty to something better.
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“A very thought-provoking story of Morrison’s journey from Lake Victoria to Rosetta, on the Mediterranean Sea, passing through Uganda, Sudan, and Egypt. The main thing I learned is that I knew essentially nothing of these nations’ history, culture, or geography. Also, sadly, though the name “Nile” evokes a sense of the romance of far-off places, crocodiles, Pharoahs, and Egyptian treasures, today’s Nile is far more likely to mean tawdry river ports, poverty, disease-bearing insects, pollution, garbage, and endless, heartbreaking violence. Eye-opening and very much a learning experience for me.”
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Karen (4 out of 5 stars)
