Description
Nubia - a vast area located in Southern Egypt and Northern Sudan - goes back at least to 3100 BC. Troubled by poverty and the dislocation of its people after the construction of Africa's largest dam, its landscape is harsh and uncompromising. Only the thin strip of land beside the Nile provides living conditions for settlement and survival. Located at a bend in the Nile, Dongola is one such settlement. It was here the young Chris McIvor arrived to provide teaching services in the early 1980s. From Dongola he traveled along the Nile and across the desert, along the way exploring the broken remains of a civilization.
In this absorbing account Chris McIvor discovers Africa. Often in danger and reliant on the kindness of strangers, he comes to love the wide territory known as Nubia and takes the first steps of his life’s work in overseas aid.