The White Nile Diaries Hopkins John
The White Nile Diaries Hopkins John 'Where is this adventure taking us? We are floating. I now have no fixed address, don't want one, don't need one. We have tasted the lotus and we are not going…
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The White Nile Diaries Hopkins John
'Where is this adventure taking us? We are floating. I now have no fixed address, don't want one, don't need one.
We have tasted the lotus and we are not going back.'It all began at the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station, in 1961.Two young Princetonians have returned to New York from South America, where their dream of buying a coffee plantation in the Peruvian jungle evaporated. Nostalgia for home is vamoose. With the fire for adventure still burning in their veins, they are tempted by a mysterious letter from Kenya and plan a trip across Africa.
They buy a white BMW motorcycle and paint the words 'The White Nile' on the tank, to honour the route they will follow.In limpid, elegant prose John Hopkins describes deadly salt flats where tourists vanish without a trace, mysterious Saharan oases and the funerals of young Tunisians killed by the French Foreign
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