The black Nile one man's amazing journey through peace and war on the world's longest river

A foreign correspondent traces the four-thousand-mile plank-board boat journey he took with an inexperienced childhood friend along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea.

Main Author: Morrison, Dan.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Viking, c2010.
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Summary: A foreign correspondent traces the four-thousand-mile plank-board boat journey he took with an inexperienced childhood friend along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea.
Physical Description: 307 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780670021987 :
0670021989 :
Author Notes: Dan Morrison 's reporting has taken him from barbecues with the Latin Kings street gang to ride-alongs with the police assassins of Bombay. His dispatches from Africa, South Asia and the Middle East have appeared in Slate, Newsday, National Geographic News , the Chicago Tribune , the San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor and U.S. News & World Report . He lives with his wife and daughter in New York.