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The White Nile diaries

Hopkins, John2014
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It all began at the Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station, New York, in 1961. Two Princeton graduates, John Hopkins and Joe McPhillips, have returned from Peru, where they dreamed of buying a coffee plantation in the jungle. Not ready to return to a life of work, marriage, and mortgages, they are tempted by a mysterious letter from Kenya. Hatching a plan to ride a motorbike across North Africa, they buy a sleek, white R50 BMW and paint her name - 'The White Nile' - on the fuel tank, in honour of the route they plan to follow. In clear, elegant prose, Hopkins describes deadly salt deserts and fig-laden oases, disappeared travellers and the funerals of young Tunisians killed in the battle for independence.
Main title:
The White Nile diaries / John Hopkins.
Author:
Imprint:
London : I.B. Tauris, 2014.
Collation:
256 pages
ISBN:
9781780768922 (hbk)1780768923
Dewey class:
916.1'044916.1044
Language:
English
BRN:
898332
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