by Tim Butcher · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780802118776
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In Blood River, Tim Butcher recounts his audacious and perilous quest through the Congo, retracing the 1874 expedition of explorer H. M. Stanley to map the Congo River. Traveling alone with an assortment of vehicles, including a motorbike and a dugout canoe, and aided by characters ranging from U.N. aid workers to a pygmy-rights advocate, Butcher examines the troubled history of the region, from its Belgian colonization in the late nineteenth century to its current age of unending turmoil. This book is an adventure story and a celebration of the survival spirit of millions of Congolese.
Tim Butcher is an English author, broadcaster and journalist. He is the author of Blood River (2007), Chasing the Devil (2010) and The Trigger (2014), travel books blending contemporary adventure with history.
