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Investigative journalist Dan Morrison hired a boat builder, summoned a childhood buddy, and set out paddling from Jinja, Uganda, down the White Nile toward Cairo. Four thousand miles, two companions, and several other means of local conveyance later, he emerged on the Mediterranean. The story Morrison tells of this spectacular--and spectacularly harrowing--journey is a mash-up of narrative travel writing, investigative reportage, and current history, resulting in a thoughtful, funny, and frightful trip across a region whose people are trying to claw their way from war and poverty to something better.

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"The Black Nile ...excels in bringing the place, politics and history of this fragile region alive.-- ""Boston Globe"" ""This is hard-core African travel."" -- ""Wall Street Journal"" ""[A] portrait of a fractured country just one spark away from a renewal of hostilities."" -- ""New York Times"" ""A masterful narrative of investigative reportage, travel writing, and contemporary history."" -- ""Daily Beast"" ""With sympathetic acuity about the personalities, tribal societies, and mechanical ingenuity of those he encounters, Morrison crafts impressions that will teach travelogue readers much about contemporary Sudan. There's enough amusement to balance the seriousness of politics, such that when visa problems interrupt Morrison's journey, his audience will stay to see if he reaches the sea."" -- ""Booklist"""

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Dan Morrison has written for the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, San Francisco Chronicle, US News & World Report, and the Christian Science Monitor, as well as for NPR, the Fox News Channel, and National Geographic News. Sean Runnette, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, has also directed and produced more than two hundred audiobooks, including several Audie Award winners. His television and film appearances include Two If by Sea, Cop Land, Sex and the City, Law & Order, the award-winning film Easter, and numerous commercials.

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