So we’re off on the 2008 Reading Challenge. I’m off the springboard and it’s juddering in the air behind me as I plunge into the pool for the first length. Following on from The Mission Song dealing with the bloody truth behind geopolitics as it influences the Congo, today I picked up Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart, by Tim Butcher.
Butcher sets out to follow the footsteps of Henry Morgan Stanley along the Congo River to the Atlantic. Hopefully I’ll have a better knowledge of the Congo by the end of it. I have to admit, The Daily Telegraph’s Africa man wouldn’t be my first port of call for information on the continent, but I’m sure I’ll learn something new from it. Like the fact that Stanley was also a Daily Telegraph reporter, and it was they who sent him off on the trip. Anyway, no further details yet, as I’ve just bought the book!
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