Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa

Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa

NO ONE TRAVELS QUITE LIKE RICHARD GRANT and, really, no one should. In his last book, the adventure classic Godâ€™s Middle Finger, he narrowly escaped death in Mexicoâ€™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 â€œthe river of bad spirits,â€ 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 Grantâ€™s peeled, battered mind as he tries to take it all in.
Country USA
Brand Free Press
Manufacturer Simon & Schuster
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2011-10-25
UnitCount 1
Format Bargain Price
EANs 9781439154144

Country	USA
Brand	Free Press
Manufacturer	Simon & Schuster
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2011-10-25
UnitCount	1
Format	Bargain Price
EANs	9781439154144

Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa

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