Publisher's Synopsis
This is the final account of the author's travels in remote places. Here we follow him to a number of different countries that share certain characteristics. They are usually remote, often in conflict, and many are little known. We go down the San Juan River in Nicaragua with him; to the civil war in Sierra Leone; to the genocide in Rwanda. He also re-explores the river route from Malawi to the Indian Ocean by the Shire River and the Zambezi-the first to do so for some twenty years. People who saw the party passing by were beside themselves with excitement because they had never seen a white man before. That led to him being asked to take over the shipping company on Lake Malawi from the government and run it for private investors. It all culminated in him being knighted by Queen Diambi Kabatsuila of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
