![]() ![]() ![]() Stanley in this remarkable marriage of travelogue and history (Max Hastings. 1, 2008 A somber, eye-opening journey into the definitive heart of darkness. READ REVIEW BLOOD RIVER A JOURNEY TO AFRICA’S BROKEN HEART by Tim Butcher RELEASE DATE: Oct. Out there between me and the Atlantic Ocean lay a primeval riot of jungle, river, plain and mountain stretching for thousands of kilometres. A British journalist retraces the legendary 1874 expedition of H. BLOOD RIVER Kirkus Reviews A brilliant account of a broken land, one that certainly deserves the attention this excellent book brings. The eastern sky was slowly growing more pale, but I turned to face west. He was ‘driven’ to make the trip by an obsession partly stoked by his mother, who, before he was born, had travelled by train across the country in its latter days as a Belgian colony. Stanley thus charted the greater part of the course of that mighty river, then unknown.īutcher’s was a plucky intention, since the Congo (which we had to call Zaire under Mobutu) has been notoriously chaotic and virtually lawless for decades across most of its territory, equal in size to Western Europe. In 2002, he chose a lull in the conflict that has riven the Democratic Republic of Congo since the fall of Mobutu in 1994 to follow the route of H M Stanley’s epic journey between October 1876 and September 1877 from the western shore of Lake Tanganyika to the mouth of the Congo River. Tim Butcher was for a while the Daily Telegraph’s man in Africa. ![]()
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