An edition of Crazy river (2011)

Crazy river

a plunge into Africa

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An edition of Crazy river (2011)

Crazy river

a plunge into Africa

Grant has plunged with his trademark recklessness, wit, and curiosity into East Africa. Setting out to make the first descent of an unexplored river in Tanzania, he gets waylaid in Zanzibar by thieves, whores, and a charismatic former golf pro before crossing the Indian Ocean in a rickety cargo boat. And then the real adventure begins. Known to local tribes as "the river of bad spirits, " the Malagarasi River is a daunting adversary even with a heavily armed Tanzanian crew as travel companions. Dodging bullets, hippos, and crocodiles, Grant finally emerges in war-torn Burundi, where he befriends some ethnic street gangsters and trails a notorious man-eating crocodile known as Gustave. He concludes his journey by interviewing the dictatorial president of Rwanda and visiting the true source of the Nile. Gripping, illuminating, sometimes harrowing, often hilarious, Crazy River is a brilliantly rendered account of a modern-day exploration of Africa, and the unraveling of Grant’s peeled, battered mind as he tries to take it all in.

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Abacus
Language
English

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Crazy river: a plunge into Africa
2013, Abacus
in English
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Crazy river
2012, Little, Brown
in English
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Crazy river: a journey to the source of the Nile
2011, Free Press
in English - 1st Free Press trade paperback ed.

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Table of Contents

1. Stone Town
2. Ramadan saloon
3. Lay down your heart
4. The road west
5. Waking into nightmare
6. Chapter of accidents
7. Pool's errand
8. Burundi calling
9. Maneater
10. Monstrous shadow
11. Please rise for His Excellency
Epilogue.

Edition Notes

Originally published: London: Little, Brown, 2012.

Published in
London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
916.780444
Library of Congress
DT440.5

The Physical Object

Pagination
pages cm

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28370710M
Internet Archive
crazyriverplunge0000gran
ISBN 10
0349000271
ISBN 13
9780349000275
OCLC/WorldCat
810947349

Work Description

In his last book, the adventure classic God's Middle Finger, he narrowly escaped death in Mexico's lawless Sierra Madre. Now, Grant has plunged with his trademark recklessness, wit, and curiosity into East Africa. Setting out to make the first descent of an unexplored river in Tanzania, he gets waylaid in Zanzibar by thieves, whores, and a charismatic former golf pro before crossing the Indian Ocean in a rickety cargo boat. And then the real adventure begins. Known to local tribes as "the river of bad spirits," the Malagarasi River is a daunting adversary even with a heavily armed Tanzanian crew as travel companions. Dodging bullets, hippos, and crocodiles, Grant finally emerges in war-torn Burundi, where he befriends some ethnic street gangsters and trails a notorious man-eating crocodile known as Gustave. He concludes his journey by interviewing the dictatorial president of Rwanda and visiting the true source of the Nile. Gripping, illuminating, sometimes harrowing, often hilarious, Crazy River is a brilliantly rendered account of a modern-day exploration of Africa, and the unraveling of Grant's peeled, battered mind as he tries to take it all in.

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