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Crazy River
Richard Grant
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Description for Crazy River
Paperback. No-one travels like the renowned writer-adventurer Richard Grant and, really, no-one should. Having narrowly escaped death at the hands of Mexican drug barons, he now plunges with his trademark recklessness and curiosity into Africa. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 199 x 18. Weight in Grams: 232.
No-one travels like the renowned writer-adventurer Richard Grant and, really, no-one should. Having narrowly escaped death at the hands of Mexican drug barons in Bandit Roads, he now plunges with his trademark recklessness and curiosity into Africa. Setting out to make the first descent of a previously unexplored river in Tanzania, he gets waylaid by thieves, whores and a degenerate former golf pro in Zanzibar, then crosses the Indian Ocean in a cargo dhow before the real adventure begins on the Malagarasi river. Travelling by raft, dodging bullets, hippos, lions and crocodiles, ... Read more
No-one travels like the renowned writer-adventurer Richard Grant and, really, no-one should. Having narrowly escaped death at the hands of Mexican drug barons in Bandit Roads, he now plunges with his trademark recklessness and curiosity into Africa. Setting out to make the first descent of a previously unexplored river in Tanzania, he gets waylaid by thieves, whores and a degenerate former golf pro in Zanzibar, then crosses the Indian Ocean in a cargo dhow before the real adventure begins on the Malagarasi river. Travelling by raft, dodging bullets, hippos, lions and crocodiles, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Abacus
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349000275
SKU
V9780349000275
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Richard Grant
Richard Grant is an English writer who has been based in the USA for fifteen years. His first book, Ghost Riders, attracted enormous praise, winning the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. His second was Bandit Roads.
Reviews for Crazy River
Grant has the makings of a first-class travel writer. He's wide-eyed without being too trusting, good at ferreting out unlikely people and possessed of ample reserves of both masochism and self-pity
John Preston
Spectator
A high-energy book
Iain Finlayson
The Times
Grant is a fearless, literary-minded travel writer. In his latest escapade he makes ... Read more
John Preston
Spectator
A high-energy book
Iain Finlayson
The Times
Grant is a fearless, literary-minded travel writer. In his latest escapade he makes ... Read more