This is a long, dense and very interesting non-fiction collection of snippets of history, geology or curious anecdote (sometimes all three) that Twigger has pulled together, all of them related to the Nile. Of all the Egypt-related books that I’ve read this year (and there were many), this one and the Cleopatra biography are the ones I’ve recommended the most. Twigger, who lived in Cairo at the time of writing (not sure if he left during the Arab Spring), set out to write a biography […]
Meandering but fascinatingly so
Red Nile by Robert Twigger