Far in the Waste Sudan

Nicholas Coghlan, author of The Saddest Country: On Assignment in Colombia, is the former consul general in Cape Town (South Africa) for Canada. He left this post in 2005 to sail the South Atlantic and South Pacific with his wife on their 8-metre sloop, B

"This book is part travelogue, part political reportage, and part economic analysis with a dash of amateur anthropology and a soupcon of sociological speculation." Paul Waters, The Montreal Gazette Praise for The Saddest Country: On Assignment in Colombia: "Mr. Coghlan gave himself permission to venture outside the canape-and-cocktail circuit straight into the wilds of one of the world's most dangerous countries." The Globe and Mail