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

Author: Dan Morrison

Narrator: Sean Runnette

Unabridged: 10 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/19/2010


Synopsis

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.

About Dan Morrison

Dan Morrison has written for the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, San Francisco Chronicle, US News & World Report, and the Christian Science Monitor, as well as for NPR, the Fox News Channel, and National Geographic News.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Dan

This is my first book. I have no choice but to give it five stars. Others may wish to give it four. Or six.......more

Goodreads review by Sara

Received ARC through the Goodreads First Reads program. The Black Nile is a chronicle of Dan Morrison's journey down the Nile. Different people will have different expectations from the book based on that description. The experience I got from reading Morrison's book was not quite what I was expectin......more