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Congo Journey
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Author : Redmond O'Hanlon
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2005-02-24
Congo Journey written by Redmond O'Hanlon and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-24 with Travel categories.
Combining the acute observation of a nineteenth-century missionary, and the wit of a Monty Python player, Redmond O'Hanlon is famous for his adventurous travel. His new challenge is the Congo, the most dangerous and inhospitable jungle in the world.
East Along The Equator
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Author : Helen Winternitz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
East Along The Equator written by Helen Winternitz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Congo (Democratic Republic) categories.
No Mercy
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Author : Redmond O'Hanlon
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 1997
No Mercy written by Redmond O'Hanlon and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
Lit with humor, full of African birdsong and told with great narrative force, No Mercy is the magnum opus of "probably the finest writer of travel books in the English language," as Bill Bryson wrote in Outside, "and certainly the most daring." Redmond O'Hanlon has journeyed among headhunters in deepest Borneo with the poet James Fenton, and amid the most reticent, imperilled and violent tribe in the Amazon Basin with a night-club manager. This, however, is his boldest journey yet. Accompanied by Lary Shaffer--an American friend and animal behaviorist, a man of imperfect health and brave decency--he enters the unmapped swamp-forests of the People's Republic of the Congo, in search of a dinosaur rumored to have survived in a remote prehistoric lake. The flora and fauna of the Congo are unrivalled, and with matchless passion O'Hanlon describes scores of rare and fascinating animals: eagles and parrots, gorillas and chimpanzees, swamp antelope and forest elephants. But as he was repeatedly warned, the night belongs to Africa, and threats both natural (cobras, crocodiles, lethal insects) and supernatural (from all-powerful sorcerers to Samale, a beast whose three-clawed hands rip you across the back) make this a saga of much fear and trembling. Omnipresent too are ecological depredations, political and tribal brutality, terrible illness and unnecessary suffering among the forest pygmies, and an appalling waste of human life throughout this little-explored region. An elegant, disturbing and deeply compassionate evocation of a vanishing world, extraordinary in its depth, scope and range of characters, No Mercy is destined to become a landmark work of travel, adventure and naturalhistory. A quest for the meaning of magic and the purpose of religion, and a celebration of the comforts and mysteries of science, it is also--and above all--a powerful guide to the humanity that prevails even in the very heart of darkness.
East Along The Equator
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Author : Helen Winternitz
language : en
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Release Date : 1987
East Along The Equator written by Helen Winternitz and has been published by Atlantic Monthly Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Travel categories.
In this brilliant mix of political journalism and travel writing, Helen Winternitz and fellow journalist Timothy Phelps witness what few Westerners have: life in the ecologically rich but financially impoverished American-backed dictatorship of Zaire, the former Belgian Congo.
No Mercy A Journey To The Heart Of The Congo
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Author : Redmond O'Hanlon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
No Mercy A Journey To The Heart Of The Congo written by Redmond O'Hanlon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Likouala (Congo : Region) categories.
Crossing The Congo
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Author : Mike Martin
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-12-01
Crossing The Congo written by Mike Martin and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-01 with Travel categories.
In 2013, three friends set off on a journey that they had been told was impossible: the north-south crossing of the Congo River Basin, from Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to Juba, in South Sudan. Traversing 2,500 miles of the toughest terrain on the planet in a twenty-five year-old Land Rover, they faced repeated challenges, from kleptocracy and fire ants to non-existent roads and intense suspicion from local people. Through imagination and teamwork -- including building rafts and bridges, conducting makeshift surgery in the jungle and playing tribal politics -- they got through. But the Congo is raw, and the journey took an unexpected psychological toll on them all. Crossing the Congo is an offbeat travelogue, a story of friendship and what it takes to complete a great journey against tremendous odds, and an intimate look into one of the world's least-developed and most fragile states, told with humor and sensitivity.
Facing The Congo
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Author : Jeffrey Tayler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Facing The Congo written by Jeffrey Tayler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Tayler's haunting travel adventure chronicles his 100-mile trip up the Congo River on a barge teaming with merchants, deckhands, prostitutes, mothers, spiritual followers, fishermen, and children. Taylor's comfort level is pushed to its limits, transforming his adventure into a journey of discovery.
Congo
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Author : Hugo Daems
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2007-10-15
Congo written by Hugo Daems and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-15 with Education categories.
The author lived seven years in the Congo as a servant of the Belgian government. He fostered deep bonds with the primitive Sonde tribe and gained the full confidence of Kianza, their illiterate tribal chirf, who inspired this book. The deep knowledge of the earliest African life is lost forever because those who knew it could not write and those who had learned to write never knew it. Primitive African life is now overshadowed by a brand new "Africa in transition". This development took less than 75 years. Original tribal life in Africa is covered with a handful of stories as told by the chief and his father. The social hierarchy of the tribe, their laws and enforcement, worship and witchcraft, slavery and the role of ghosts, initiation processses into manhood and various secret societies get to the glue that secured the social order of a tribe that was only one step beyond the original hunter-gatherer's way of life.
My Second Journey Through Equatorial Africa
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Author : Hermann von Wissmann
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
My Second Journey Through Equatorial Africa written by Hermann von Wissmann and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Africa, Central categories.
Blood River
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Author : Tim Butcher
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-12-15
Blood River written by Tim Butcher and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-15 with Travel categories.
**THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring and adventurous journey. When war correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa in 2000 he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating H.M. Stanley's famous nineteenth century trans-Africa expedition - but travelling alone. Despite warnings that his plan was 'suicidal', Butcher set out for the Congo's eastern border with just a rucksack and a few thousand dollars hidden in his boots. Making his way in an assortment of vessels including a motorbike and a dugout canoe, helped along by a cast of unlikely characters, he followed in the footsteps of the great Victorian adventurers. Butcher's journey was a remarkable feat, but the story of the Congo, told expertly and vividly in this book, is more remarkable still. ‘A masterpiece’ John Le Carré ‘Extraordinary, audacious, completely enthralling’ William Boyd ‘A remarkable marriage of travelogue and history, which deserves to make Tim Butcher a star for his prose, as well as his courage’ Max Hastings