A review by rkwdc
Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa by Richard Grant

4.0

Tucson-residing British ex-Pat heads off to Zanzibar to recruit help for a fairly impromptu exploration of the Malagarasi River from its source in Burundi through Tanzania to Lake Tanganyika. Hi-jinx (violent poachers, a drunken ex-pro golfer, an undiagnosed fever) ensues, culminating in a stop-over in Rwanda to interview the president, Paul Kagame, about post-atrocity relations between the Tutsis and Hutus. Not as epic as Theroux's "Dark Star Safari," but just as entertaining and without nearly as much judgmental-superiority-complex baggage one encounters when reading Theroux.