Sudan.

Sudan

By Paul Clammer

[pounds sterling]13.95 Bradt Travel Guides

ISBN 1-84162-114-5

The largest country in Africa, with more pyramids than Egypt and, until recently, the continent's longest running civil war, Sudan has of late attracted few travellers. But, as this book explains, while you might have to endure mind-numbing bureaucracy and travel rough enough to rid many of the Africa bug, those tenacious few venturing to Sudan will, Inshallah, experience life-affirming hospitality and adventurous travel.

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The guide's first half explains the country's historical context, the second half describes the country from the confluence of the Niles at Khartoum, the pyramids of the Nubian desert; the frontier settlement of Wadi Halfa, the railhead town of Atbara, the Red Sea's pristine dive sites, the world's Gum Arabic capital El Obeid, the sugarloaf Taka mountains near Kassala, and the fertile Nuba Mountains.