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The White Nile Diaries (Paperback)
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The White Nile Diaries (Paperback)
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List price R570
Loot Price R519
Discovery Miles 5 190
You Save R51 (9%)
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'Where is this adventure taking us? I now have no fixed address,
don't want one, don't need one. We are floating. Nostalgia for home
is vamoose. We have tasted the lotus and we are not going back.' It
all began at the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station, in 1961. Two
young Princetonians have returned to New York from South America,
where their dream of buying a coffee plantation in the Peruvian
jungle evaporated. With the fire for adventure still burning in
their veins, they are tempted by a mysterious letter from Kenya and
plan a trip across Africa. They buy a white BMW motorcycle and
paint the words 'The White Nile' on the tank, to honour the route
they will follow. In limpid, elegant prose John Hopkins describes
deadly salt flats where tourists vanish without a trace, mysterious
Saharan oases and the funerals of young Tunisians killed by the
French Foreign Legion. In Leptus Magna he conjures visions of
ancient Rome and visits Homer's fabled island of the Lotus Eaters.
They escape armed vigilantes in the Tunisian desert, and are chased
by the border patrol across Libyan sands. They climb the Great
Pyramid at Giza at dawn, endure 'The Desert Express' across the
Nubian desert and travel by paddlewheel steamer through the Sudd, a
swamp bigger than Britain. But the final adventure, at the idyllic
Impala Farm at the foot of Mount Kenya, turns out to be a poisoned
paradise. The White Nile Diaries is a riveting coming-of-age
journey, a tantalising glimpse into a time when Africa was an
oyster for the young, the brave and the free. The places, the
people, the writing, and the emotional reverberations hold the
reader enthralled.
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