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Water Music by T.C. Boyle (Paperback, 1998)

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Uneasily poised between literary parody and conventional history/adventure fiction, tiffs is an ambitious but unfunny and not-very-entertaining novel from a gifted humorist (Descent of Man). Boyle's historical base here is a 1700s expedition to find the African river Niger undertaken by young Scottish explorer Mungo Park.

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In London, Ned Rise, thief and whoremaster, is drinking Strip-Me-Naked with Nan Punt and Sally Sebum at the Pig and Pox Tavern in Maiden Lane. And, far from his native Edinburgh, the explorer Mungo Park is stranded in the Sahara, a prisoner of the Moors of Ludamar. Water Music is the rambunctious account of two men's wild adventures through the gutters of London and the Scottish Highlands to their unlikely meeting in darkest Africa, as they search for the source of the Niger, a river no European has ever laid eyes upon.