De Blauwe Nijl / het heilige water van Ethiopie
Morell, Viginia
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- Author
- Morell, Viginia
- Publisher
- Sirene
- ISBN
- 9789058311269
- Language
- Dutch
- Condition notes
- 2001, 318 pp, paperback
- Category
- Topography › Africa
About this book
'The Blue Nile is both adored and hated, admired and feared, revered as a saint and despised as the greatest sinner. The river washes away the earth’s precious topsoil; it teems with crocodiles, hippos and malaria-carrying mosquitoes; its deep bed is like a moat that splits the land in two. Both Orthodox Christians and animists believe that the river’s waters harbour powerful spirits – some associated with devilish demons, others with God. “Make sure you give the Abbai some bread,” warns a woman with a blue, cross-shaped tattoo on her forehead. “If you’re not careful, evil jinn will come out of the water and fly straight for your throat.”
Virginia Morell joins adventurer Nevada Weir’s expedition: the two women travel more than 1,300 kilometres on foot and by raft across and along the Blue Nile, from Lake Tana in Ethiopia to the border with Sudan.