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Political Science General

Far in the Waste Sudan

On Assignment in Africa

by (author) Nicholas Coghlan

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2005
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780773529359
    Publish Date
    Sep 2005
    List Price
    $45.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773573024
    Publish Date
    Sep 2005
    List Price
    $24.95

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Oil rich and on the divide between Africa and the Middle East, Sudan is one of Africa's most inaccessible countries. Coghlan takes the reader from Khartoum, former home of Carlos the Jackal and Osama bin-Laden, to the Nubian desert to the rebel-controlled swamps and jungle lowlands of Equatoria. He takes us with him to the mountain ranges of Darfur and the forgotten national park of Dinder and on a fifty-year old steel sailing dinghy racing on the Blue Nile.

About the author

Nicholas Coghlan and his wife, Jenny, sailed around the world on their first boat, Tarka the Otter between 1985 and 1989. On his return he joined the Canadian Foreign Service and has written books about two of his postings: The Saddest Country: On Assignment in Colombia and Far in the Waste Sudan: On Assignment in Africa. Following their adventure, Coghlan accepted a two-year posting as Deputy High Commissioner in Pakistan. Now, he and his wife are living aboard Bosun Bird somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.

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