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The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River

10 best books like The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River (Dan Morrison): Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat, The White Nile, The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief, Black Mamba Boy, Malaria Dreams: An African Adventure, No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo, Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness, The Magnetic North: Notes From The Arctic Circle, The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind and Almost Found Myself on the Pacific Crest Trail, Travels in West Africa

Three Ways to Capsize a Boat: An Optimist Afloat
AuthorChris Stewart
ISBN0956003834
If you're wondering what Chris Stewart did before he and Ana moved to El Valero, their Spanish farm, here's one of the answers. He took to the sea, landing a job as skipper for the summer, sailing a Cornish Crabber around the Greek islands. It was his dream job - and there was just one tiny problem. He hadn't...
The White Nile
AuthorAlan Moorehead
ISBN0060956399
Relive all the thrills and adventure of Alan Moorehead's classic bestseller The White Nile -- the daring exploration of the Nile River in the second half of the nineteenth century, which was at that time the most mysterious and impenetrable region on earth. Capturing in breathtaking prose the larger-than-life...
The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief
AuthorV.S. Naipaul
ISBN0307270734
Like all of V. S. Naipaul’s “travel” books, The Masque of Africa encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of civilization.

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Black Mamba Boy
AuthorNadifa Mohamed
ISBN0007315740
For fans of Half of a Yellow Sun, a stunning novel set in 1930s Somalia spanning a decade of war and upheaval, all seen through the eyes of a small boy alone in the world.

Aden, Yemen, 1935; a city vibrant, alive, and full of hidden dangers. And home to Jama, a ten year-old boy. But then his mother dies...
Malaria Dreams: An African Adventure
AuthorStuart Stevens
Malaria Dreams is a book about the author and his friend's trip from West Africa to the Mediterranean in a questionable car, and it's well written. So why the one star?

I like adventure travel and adventure travel books better than the next guy usually- depending on who the next guy actually is,...
No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo
AuthorRedmond O'Hanlon
ISBN0679737324
Redmond O'Hanlon has journeyed among headhunters in deepest Borneo with the poet James Fenton, and amid the most reticent, imperilled and violent tribe in the Amazon Basin with a night-club manager. This, however, is his boldest journey yet. Accompanied by Lary Shaffer - an American friend and animal...
Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness
AuthorJeffrey Tayler
ISBN0609808265
Faced with an identity crisis in his work and his life, seasoned traveler and journalist Jeffrey Tayler made a bold decision. He would leave behind his mundane existence in Moscow to re-create the legendary British explorer Henry Stanley’s trip down the Congo in a dugout canoe, stocked with food,...
The Magnetic North: Notes From The Arctic Circle
AuthorSara Wheeler
ISBN0224082213
A Globe and Mail Best Books of the Year 2011 Title

More than a decade ago, Sara Wheeler traveled to Antarctica to understand a continent nearly lost to myth and lore. In the widely acclaimed, bestselling Terra Incognita, she chronicled her quest to find a hidden history buried in Antarctica's...
The Cactus Eaters: How I Lost My Mind and Almost Found Myself on the Pacific Crest Trail
AuthorDan White
ISBN0061376930
The Pacific Crest Trail stretches from Mexico to Canada, a distance of 2,650 grueling, sun-scorched, bear-infested miles. When Dan White and his girlfriend announced their intention to hike it, Dan's parents—among others—thought they were nuts. How could two people who'd never even shared...
Travels in West Africa
AuthorMary Henrietta Kingsley
ISBN0792266382
In 1893, defying every convention of Victorian womanhood, Mary Kingsley set off alone for West Africa to collect botanical specimens. Unaccompanied except for native guides, she plunged boldly into forbidding jungles, often the first European--and almost always the first white woman--ever to...
Into Thick Air: Biking to the Bellybutton of Six Continents
AuthorJim Malusa
With plenty of sunscreen and a cold beer swaddled in his sleeping bag, writer and botanist Jim Malusa bicycled alone to the lowest point on each of six continents, a six-year series of “anti-expeditions” to the “anti-summits.” His journeys took him to Lake Eyre in the arid heart of Australia,...
Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire
AuthorSimon Winchester
ISBN0060598611
Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire, set out across the globe to visit the far-flung islands that are all that remain of what once made Britain great. He traveled 100,000 miles back and forth, from Antarctica to the Caribbean, from the Mediterranean...
Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu
AuthorKira Salak
ISBN0792274571
After 37 years of never reading about Mali, I have managed two books about that country in the last month. The previous book (The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts) gave more information about the history of the region, and informed my reading...
Tropical Gangsters: One Man's Experience with Development and Decadence in Deepest Africa
AuthorRobert Klitgaard
ISBN0465087604
I'm not really sure why I enjoyed this book so much; the author talked a lot about economic restructuring/ governmental organization/ etc (snore). But, every time it threatened to get bogged down, he redirected his focus to the people, culture, and natural beauty of the country. He came away from his...
The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World... via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes
AuthorCarl Hoffman
ISBN0767929802
Indonesian Ferry Sinks.  Peruvian Bus Plunges Off Cliff.  African Train Attacked by Mobs.  Whenever he picked up the newspaper, Carl Hoffman noticed those short news bulletins, which seemed about as far from the idea of tourism, travel as the pursuit of pleasure, as it was possible to get.  So...
Three Empires on the Nile: The Victorian Jihad, 1869-1899
AuthorDominic Green
ISBN0743280717
A secular regime is toppled by Western intervention, but an Islamic backlash turns the liberators into occupiers. Caught between interventionists at home and fundamentalists abroad, a prime minister flounders as his ministers betray him, alliances fall apart, and a runaway general makes policy...
Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa
AuthorRichard Grant
ISBN1439154147
NO ONE TRAVELS QUITE LIKE RICHARD GRANT and, really, no one should. In his last book, the adventure classic God's Middle Finger, he narrowly escaped death in Mexico's lawless Sierra Madre. Now, Grant has plunged with his trademark recklessness, wit, and curiosity into East Africa. Setting out to make...
Crisis and Command: A History of Executive Power from George Washington to George W. Bush
AuthorJohn Yoo
ISBN1607145553
An American President faces war and finds himself hamstrung by a Congress that will not act. To protect national security, he invokes his powers as Commander-in-Chief and orders actions that seem to violate laws enacted by Congress. He is excoriated for usurping dictatorial powers, placing himself...
Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge
AuthorJohn Gimlette
ISBN0307272532
Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana are among the least-known places in South America: nine hundred miles of muddy coastline giving way to a forest so dense that even today there are virtually no roads through it; a string of rickety coastal towns situated between the mouths of the Orinoco and Amazon...
Turn Left At The Trojan Horse: A Would-Be Hero's American Odyssey
AuthorBrad Herzog
ISBN0806532025
"Turn Left at the Trojan Horse had me howling with laughter and nodding at the razor-sharp observation." --Tahir Shah, author of The Caliph's House

"Go away. Figure it out," she was saying. "Don't come back until you do." She looked at the calendar. "You have thirty-one days."

With...
The Ringtone and the Drum: Travels in the World's Poorest Countries
AuthorMark Weston
ISBN1780995865
Laced with danger, packed with novel insights and told with a humane voice, The Ringtone and the Drum relates the fascinating tale of Mark Weston’s travels in West Africa. His journey through Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso touches a dizzying array of subjects, including the consequences...
Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
AuthorRosemary Mahoney
Rosemary Mahoney was determined to take a solo trip down the Egyptian Nile in a small boat, even though civil unrest and vexing local traditions conspired to create obstacles every step of the way. Starting off in the south, she gained the unlikely sympathy and respect of a Muslim sailor, who provided...
Crossing the Heart of Africa: An Odyssey of Love and Adventure
AuthorJulian Smith
ISBN0061873470
Here is the amazing true story of Julian Smith, who retraced the journey of legendary British explorer Ewart ''the Leopard'' Grogan, the first man to cross the length of Africa, in hopes of winning the heart of the woman he loved.

In 1898 the dashing young British explorer Ewart ''the Leopard''...
The Ramen King and I: How the Inventor of Instant Noodles Fixed My Love Life
AuthorAndy Raskin
ISBN1592404448
"Mankind is Noodlekind"

For three days in January 2007, the most e-mailed article in The New York Times was "appreciations: Mr. noodle," an editorial noting the passing, at age ninety-six, of Momofuku Ando, the inventor of instant ramen. Ando's existence came as a shock to many, but not to...
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