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Book 2006

Water music

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Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
Published
2006
  • Fiction
  • Explorers
  • Discoveries in geography
  • Discovery and exploration
  • Expedition
  • Globetrotter
  • Africa, fiction
  • Fiction, historical, general

Set in the late eighteenth century, Water Music follows the wild adventures of Ned Rise, thief and whoremaster, and Mungo Park, a Scottish explorer, through London's seamy gutters and Scotland's scenic highlands to their grand meeting in the heart of darkest Africa. There they join forces and wend their hilarious way to the source of the Niger.