Walking the Nile, Levison Wood
Walking the Nile, Levison Wood
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Walking the Nile

Author: Levison Wood

Narrator: Gildart Jackson

Unabridged: 11 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/21/2016


Synopsis

Starting in November 2013 in a forest in Rwanda, where a modest spring spouts a trickle of clear, cold water, Levison Wood set forth on foot, aiming to become the first person to walk the entire length of the Nile. He followed the river for nine months, over 4,000 miles, through six nations—Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, the Republic of Sudan, and Egypt—to the Mediterranean coast.

Like his predecessors, Wood camped in the wild, foraged for food, and trudged through rainforest, swamp, savannah, and desert, enduring life-threatening conditions at every turn. He traversed sandstorms, flash floods, minefields, and more, becoming a local celebrity in Uganda, where a popular rap song was written about him, and a potential enemy of the state in South Sudan, where he found himself caught in a civil war and detained by the secret police.

An inimitable tale of survival, resilience, and sheer willpower, Walking the Nile is an inspiring chronicle of an epic journey down the lifeline of civilization in northern Africa.

About Levison Wood

Levison Wood is a writer, photographer, and explorer. He is the author of Arabian Journey, Walking the Nile, and Walking the Americas, which won the 2016 Edward Stanford Adventure Travel Book of the Year Award. He served in the British Army Parachute Regiment and is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and an international fellow of the Explorers Club. His work has been featured in publications around the world, including National Geographic and Discovery Channel Magazine, and on CNN, Channel 4, and the BBC. When not abroad, he lives in London.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jay on August 12, 2020

Try spending 271 days walking over 4,100 miles from the source of the Nile River in Rwanda in central Africa to its end at the Mediterranean Sea in Egypt. Then try doing it through steaming jungle, tribal warfare, bandits, a civil war in South Sudan, 120+ degree desert heat and fighting government r......more

Goodreads review by Jessaka on January 16, 2021

Nubian Dreams There is a place in the Nubian Desert, just past the pyramids, amongst the volcanoes, that is quiet and peaceful, where people farm as they had for thousands of years. I fell in love with this part of Africa, but maybe I was only dreaming that it existed like this, that there was such a......more

Goodreads review by Lee on October 22, 2021

I thought this one far superior to Lev's 'Walking the Himalayas'. The prime reason is that Lev recounts the people that he travels with and meets along the way and gives a greater cultural insight into the regions he passes through. He occasionally slips into the odd banality - the laddish section i......more