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Synopsis

When "Daily Telegraph" correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa in 2000 he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating H M Stanley's famous 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 characters from UN aid workers to a campaigning pygmy, 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.

Reviews and Press Quotes

John Le Carré

“Quite superb... a masterpiece.”

Sue Arnold, The Guardian

“The best thing about Blood River, with its hair-raising descriptions of jungle wildlife (no, not the animals, they've all been eaten - the trigger-happy Mai Mai militia, drunk, stoned, volatile, superstitious and anti-white), is the matter-of-fact way he tells it. When he's terrified, he says, he can feel it behind his knees. This isn't a professional, direct-to-camera, Simpsonesque 'how I liberated Kabul' performance. It's straight from the knees.”

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• Violence: Mild
• Language: Mild