The Black Nile

<b>A supremely entertaining work and also an important one. -David Grann author of <i>The Lost City of Z</i> </b> <p/> 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 <i>The Black Nile</i> tracks the snarl of commonalities and conflicts that bleed across the Nile valley bringing to life a complex region in profound transition.