Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
"In diplomatic circles, you cry when you hear you've been posted to Sudan, but you cry even more when you leave." Oil rich and on the divide between Africa and the Middle East, Sudan is one of Africa's most inaccessible countries. Nicholas Coghlan takes the reader from Khartoum, former home to Carlos the Jackal and Osama bin-Laden, to the Nubian desert to the rebel-controlled swamps and jungle lowlands of Equatorial. 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. With new conflicts smouldering in Darfur,Penned by the first Canadian diplomat ever to be posted to Khartoum, "Far in the Waste Sudan" offers a unique and privileged view of Sudan at an epochal moment in its history.
Synopsis
Penned by the first Canadian diplomat ever to be posted to Khartoum, "Far in the Waste Sudan" offers a unique and privileged view of Sudan at an epochal moment in its history.
About the Author
Nicholas Coghlan, author of The Saddest Country: On Assignment in Colombia, is the former consul general in Cape Town (South Africa) for Canada. He left this post in 2005 to sail the South Atlantic and South Pacific with his wife on their 8-metre sloop, B