By Dan Morrison"Journalist Morrison has covered conflicts ranging from the political to the environmental in areas from Afghanistan to India to Uganda and beyond. While covering the conflict in Darfur, Sudan, he planned a trip not known to have been made in decades-travel up the White Nile from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea. Morrison's friend Schon Bryan accompanies him on part of the trip, his first travel outside of the States. The journey, planned to take three months, required six and was more land travel than river voyage. From Uganda, through Sudan and Egypt, the Nile has become undrinkable, overfished, dammed by hydroelectric plants, choked with water hyacinth, and traveled by warships. Morrison's narrative combines reporting and travelog in a way that brings readers to this most unlikely destination, a place of complexity, tension, struggle, and pain, where shreds of tradition and community are still visible. Verdict Morrison's account transcends the travel genre to provide authentic and timely information on a complicated part of the world."(LJ Reviews)
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