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Red Nile - Robert Twigger

Red Nile

The Biography of the World’s Greatest River

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Buch | Hardcover
480 Seiten
2013
Weidenfeld & Nicolson (Verlag)
978-0-297-86649-7 (ISBN)
CHF 43,60 inkl. MwSt
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An intimate biography of one of the world's natural wonders.
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 greatest and most sustained creator.

In this dazzling, idiosyncratic journey from ancient times to the Arab Spring, Robert Twigger weaves a Nile narrative like no other. Along the way we meet crocodiles and caliphs, nineteenth-century adventurers and twentieth-century novelists, biblical prophets and classical lovers, dam-builders and crusaders. 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.

Robert Twigger is a British author, poet and adventurer. After attending Oxford University he trained with the Tokyo Riot Police, which became the subject of his bestselling book Angry White Pyjamas. He has been awarded the Newdigate Prize for poetry, the Somerset Maugham Award for Literature and the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. He led the expedition that was the first to cross the Great Sand Sea of the Egyptian Sahara solely on foot, and another that was the first to cross Western Canada in a birchbark canoe since 1793. He is the author of eight books, both fiction and non-fiction, as well as several collections of poetry.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 23.5.2013
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 159 x 239 mm
Gewicht 782 g
Themenwelt Reisen Reiseberichte Afrika
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 0-297-86649-4 / 0297866494
ISBN-13 978-0-297-86649-7 / 9780297866497
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