Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa Paperback - 2011

NO ONE TRAVELS QUITE LIKE RICHARD GRANT and, really, no one should. In his last book, the adventure classic Gods Middle Finger, he narrowly escaped death in Mexicos 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 the river of bad spirits, 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 Grants peeled, battered mind as he tries to take it all in.

Details

• Title Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa
• Author Richard Grant
• Binding Paperback
• Edition Original
• Pages 352
• Volumes 1
• Language ENG
• Publisher Free Press, New York, New York
• Date 2011-10-25
• Features Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
• ISBN 9781439154144 / 1439154147
• Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
• Dimensions 8.74 x 5.36 x 0.82 in (22.20 x 13.61 x 2.08 cm)
• Themes
  • Cultural Region: African
• Library of Congress subjects Africa, East - Discovery and exploration, Africa, East - Description and travel
• Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011012168
• Dewey Decimal Code 916.782

"To discover Africa is a quest that has burned away at the European soul since Ptolemy. Richard Grant goes on his own by bus, boat and foot to reach the source of the (White) Nile and find out what really drives Africa." --San Francisco Book Review