Showing Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa by Richard Grant

Paperback. Pub Date: October 2011 Pages: 352 Publisher: Free Press NO ONE TRAVELS QUITE LIKE RICHARD GRANT and really No one should In HIS last book. The adventure classic God's Middle Finger. He narrowly escaped death in Mexico's Lawless Sierra Madre. Now. Grant has plunged with his trademark recklessness. wit. and curiosity into East Africa. Setting out to make the first descent of an unexplored river in Tanzania. he gets waylaid in Zanzibar by thieves. whores. and a charismatic former golf pro before crossing the Indian Ocean in a rickety cargo boat. And then the real adventure begins. Known to local tribes as the river of bad spirits. the Malagarasi River is a daunting adversary even with a heavily armed Tanzanian crew as travel companions. Dodging bullets. hippos. and crocodiles. Grant finally emerges in war-torn Burundi. where he befriends some ethnic street gangsters ...