Crossing the Congo
ISBN: 9781787389625
Published: 2023
Number of pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
Format: 21.6×13.8
Published: 2023
Number of pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
Format: 21.6×13.8
Description
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 humour and sensitivity.
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