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

by Dan Morrison

Book Overview

A spectacular modern-day adventure along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea With news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison bought a plank-board boat, summoned a childhood friend who'd never been off American soil and set out from Uganda, paddling the White Nile on a quest to reach Cairo-a trip that tyranny and war had made impossible for decades. Morrison's chronicle is a mashup of travel narrative...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670021989
• ISBN13: 9780670021987
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.0" x 6.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher