Old Serpent Nile: A Journey to the Source [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Stewart, Stanley

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0006550282 ISBN 13: 9780006550280

Casa editrice: Flamingo, 1997

Riassunto

An unforgettable journey through Egypt, Sudan and Uganda to the source of the great river Nile.

stanley stewart is the winner of the 1996 thomas cook/daily telegraph travel book award.

Inspired by a dream ‘of boats and currents, of narrow riverbanks and wide savannas, and of the long, uncoiling river leading to the heart of a continent’ Stanley Stewart travels from the Nile Delta to the Mountains of the Moon in a journey that was arduous, colourful, funny and sometimes wildly dangerous.

Whether on a pilgrimage to desert monasteries, aboard a felucca sailing to the splendours of ancient Egypt, crossing the Nubian desert, meeting the victims of famine in Sudan, or narrowly escaping the attentions of the Ugandan army, Stewart tells his compelling and evocative story with wit, warmth and understanding.

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Recensione:

‘Stewart must now be considered among the very first rank of contemporary travel writers’
Robert Carver, TLS

L'autore:

Stanley Stewart was born in 1952 in Northern Ireland. When he was three, his parents emigrated to Canada and he spent the next eighteen years there. He has at various times been a fisherman off the coast of Ireland, a farmer in Tuscany, a cab driver in Toronto, a theatrical set-builder, a copy writer for a marketing agency... He has travelled in almost every continent of the world and has written two acclaimed travel books, Frontiers of Heaven and Old Serpent Nile. Stanley Stewart lives in London.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Flamingo
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0006550282
• ISBN 13: 9780006550280
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256