In diplomatic circles, you cry when you hear you've been posted to Sudan, but you cry even more when you leave. Oil rich and on the divide between Africa and the Middle East, Sudan is one of Africa's most inaccessible countries. Nicholas Coghlan takes the reader from Khartoum, former home to Carlos the Jackal and Osama bin-Laden, to the Nubian desert to the rebel-controlled swamps and jungle lowlands of Equatorial. 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. With new conflicts smouldering in Darfur, | Far in the Waste Sudan by Nicholas Coghlan, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters