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

A supremely entertaining work, and also an important one. -David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z

Upon hearing the news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison bought a plank-board boat, summoned a friend who'd never left America, and set out from Uganda, paddling the Nile on a quest to reach Cairo-a trip that tyranny and war had made impossible for decades. With the propulsive force of a thriller, Morrison's chronicle is a mash-up of travel narrative and reportage, packed with flights into the frightful and absurd. From the hardscrabble fishing villages on Lake Victoria to the floating nightclubs of Cairo, The Black Nile tracks the snarl of commonalities and conflicts that bleed across the Nile valley, bringing to life a complex region in profound transition. This is hard-core African travel...[With] Mr. Morrison's peppery anecdotes, his refreshing honesty and his ability to show how Africans view their difficulties ... the book gives us a compelling portrait of life along the Nile-from lonely fishing communities on Lake Victoria to the cacophonous collisions of Cairo.
-Hugh Pope, Wall Street Journal

Dan Morrison takes the reader on an incredible journey in The Black Nile. Weaving together intense travel writing and history, he has produced a supremely entertaining work, and also an important one.
-David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z and The Devil and Sherlock Holmes

Morrison's determined travelogue-cum-political reportage...excels in bringing the place, politics and history of this fragile region alive.
-Ethan Gilsdorf, Boston Globe

Marvelous...A beautifully written tale of an American on a journey to find out who else is out there, what they're thinking, why tl³4