So much begins on the banks of the Nile: all religion all life all stories the script we write in the language we speak the gods the legends & the names of stars. This mighty river that flows through a quarter of all Africa has been history's greatest & most sustained creator. In this dazzling idiosyncratic journey from ancient times to the Arab Spring Robert Twigger weaves a Nile narrative like no other. Along the way we meet crocodiles & caliphs nineteenth-century adventurers & twentieth-century novelists biblical prophets & classical lovers dam-builders & crusaders. As he navigates a meandering course through the history of the world's greatest river he plucks the most intriguing colourful & dramatic stories
- truly a Nile red in tooth & claw. The result is both an epic journey through the whole sweep of human (and pre-human) history & an intimate biography of the curious life of this great river overflowing with stories of excess love passion splendour & violence.