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Robert Twigger won the SOMERSET MAUGHAM and WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDs for ANGRY WHITE PYJAMAS. His attempt to capture a record-breaking 30-foot python in 1999, BIG SNAKE, was filmed for Channel 4. Having lived in Egypt for many years, he now lives in Dorset with his family.
Twigger's book on the history of the river Nile is one of the those unexpected great reads... This is a non-fiction book that reads like a great, page-turning novel. CATHOLIC HERALD Red Nile is a scintillatingly colourful account of a river and a region that explorer/adventurer Twigger knows well... probably the author's magnum opus. SUNDAY TIMES Red Nile by Robert Twigger is how history should be written and taught. The reader is taken on a sweeping journey through the endless story of the Nile, where so much began and so much is still happening. -- Robin Hanbury-Tenison COUNTRY LIFE gives great insight into a place where the growth of civilisation is so closely lined to the power of nature. GOOD BOOK GUIDE This torrent of tales sweeps up everything from hippos (the Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar kept four Nile hippos at his mansion in Medellin) to erotic papyrus. The Daily Telegraph Red Nile is a scintillating account of a river and a region that explorer/adventurer Twigger knows well... A fine, if flawed work that it probably the author's magnum opus. SUNDAY TIMES
