Old Serpent Nile: a Journey to the Source: A Journey to the Source - Hardcover

Stewart, Stanley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0719548640 ISBN 13: 9780719548642

Publisher: John Murray General Publishing Division, 1991

Synopsis

The author recounts his journey down the Nile from mouth to source. He covers 4000 miles over nine months, visiting desert monastries, sailing by felucca, meeting the victims of famine in Sudan and narrowly escaping the attentions of the Ugandan army.

About this title

About the Author:

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.

Review:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: John Murray General Publishing Division
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0719548640
• ISBN 13: 9780719548642
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248