Foreign Rights

Marc Buhl

Rashida - The Race to the Source of the Nile

Mensen Ernst (1795-1843) was born in a little mountain village in Norway as the son of a sailor, whom he would never meet. The village inhabitants said that his father had suffered from calenture; a fever that never let him stand still and often drove him out of their narrow valley. One day, he vanished into Africa and never came back – besides a map and some geotechnical instruments, the restless legs syndrome is all that he left his son. The wish to trace his father's footsteps and to finish the quest he had begun to find the source of the Nile becomes Mensen Ernst’s obsession.

Rashida is the enchanting tall tale of a forgotten hero of speed, travelling far and wide on a quest to ultimately find his own self.

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