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http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2008/jan/09/travelbooks.democraticrepublicofcongo?page=all
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
by Tim Butcher
Published by Vintage, January 3 2008 (paperback), £7.99
Remember the Blue Peter safety warning? Don't try this at home. Please bear in mind those words of caution when you read this book. Do NOT try to repeat Tim Butcher's audacious and terrifying Congo journey. If you do, you will probably die.
When Daily Telegraph correspondent Butcher was sent to Africa, he became obsessed with the great Congo River, and the idea of retracing the legendary expedition of H M ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume?") Stanley. No one else seemed to have crossed the continent's waist since then, let alone another Telegraph journalist, and for Butcher the 1874 expedition marked the start of modern African history. Stanley's sensational reports had encouraged Leopold II, King of the Belgians, to claim parts of the continent's interior, and so forced other European powers to do the same.

Deadly.
I want this book.
I'll re-read Heart Of Darkness first.
Heh.
 

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