Red Nile - The Biography of the World's Greatest River

A rip-roaring yet intimate biography of the mighty Nile by Robert Twigger, award-winning author of ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS. 'A tour de force' FINANCIAL TIMES. So much begins on the banks of the Nile: all religion, all life, all stories, the script we write in, the language we speak, the gods, the legends and the names of stars. This mighty river that flows through a quarter of all Africa has been history's most sustained creator. In this dazzling, idiosyncratic journey from ancient times to the Arab Spring, award-winning author Robert Twigger weaves a Nile narrative like no other. As he navigates a meandering course through the history of the world's greatest river, he plucks the most intriguing, colourful and dramatic stories - truly a Nile red in tooth and claw. The result is both an epic journey through the whole sweep of human and pre-human history, and an intimate biography of the curious life of this great river, overflowing with stories of excess, love, passion, splendour and violence.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Twigger, Twigger Robert
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 10.04.2014
• EAN: 9781780220932
• ISBN: 978-1-78022-093-2
• No. of pages: 466
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Phoenix
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > Africa; Reiseberichte, Reiseerinnerungen (div.), Nil : Berichte, Erinnerungen, TRAVEL / Africa / General, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure, Expeditions, HISTORY / Africa / General, Expeditions: popular accounts, North Africa, TRAVEL / Africa / North / General, Nile river and tributaries