03028nam 2200697Ia 450 991078270570332120231206205232.01-282-86366-597866128636600-7735-7302-X10.1515/9780773573024(CKB)1000000000713848(OCoLC)243600878(CaPaEBR)ebrary10176073(SSID)ssj0000279416(PQKBManifestationID)11210660(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000279416(PQKBWorkID)10259894(PQKB)11433627(CaPaEBR)407639(CaBNvSL)slc00204670(Au-PeEL)EBL3331621(CaPaEBR)ebr10178270(CaONFJC)MIL286366(OCoLC)923230738(DE-B1597)655580(DE-B1597)9780773573024(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/nd6ntv(schport)gibson_crkn/2009-12-01/4/407639(MiAaPQ)EBC3331621(MiAaPQ)EBC3248748(EXLCZ)99100000000071384820050429d2005 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrFar in the waste Sudan[electronic resource] on assignment in Africa /Nicholas CoghlanMontreal ;Ithaca McGill-Queen's University Pressc20051 online resource (348 p.) Includes index.0-7735-2935-7 Front Matter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Khartoum -- In the oil Fields Fuelling The Fire ? -- Operation Lifeline Sudan -- Victims -- Northern Lights Conversations With the Elite -- The Borderline Goverment-Held South Sudan -- Behind Rebel Lines -- Fallen Empires -- Southern Voices -- The Contested Areas -- The Wild West -- The East -- Leaving Khartoum -- Sunset Over Fashoda -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology of Modern Sudanese History -- Acronyms -- IndexOil rich and on the divide between Africa and the Middle East, Sudan is one of Africa's most inaccessible countries. Coghlan takes the reader from Khartoum, former home of Carlos the Jackal and Osama bin-Laden, to the Nubian desert to the rebel-controlled swamps and jungle lowlands of Equatoria. He takes us with him to the mountain ranges of Darfur and the forgotten national park of Dinder and on a fifty-year old steel sailing dinghy racing on the Blue Nile.DiplomatsSudanBiographyDiplomatsCanadaBiographySudanPolitics and government1985-SudanHistory1956-CanadaOfficials and employeesSudanBiographyDiplomatsDiplomats962.404/3Coghlan Nicholas1954-1480701MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910782705703321Far in the waste Sudan3697424UNINA