East along the equator - Helen Winternitz
a journey up the Congo and into Zaire
KORTE INHOUD
Helen Winternitz, a seasoned African traveler, persuaded fellow Baltimore Sun journalist Timothy Phelps to travel (the hard way) 2,000 miles up the Congo River and through some of the most remote and breathtaking regions of the world. In this brilliant mix of political journalism and travel writing they witness what few Westerners have: life in the ecologically rich though financially impoverished American-backed dictatorship of Zaire, the former Belgian Congo. The journey starts from Kinshasa, east along the equator aboard a dilapidated and extravagantly overcrowded riverboat replete with hippopotamus hunters, government spies, tough women, whiskey-drinking clerics, and Congo fishermen." From the geographic center of the continent the pair strikes out overland to the Ituri rain forest (home of the pygmies), through the legendary snow-capped Mountains of the Moon, and then down to the volcano-studded savannas of the Great Rift Valley." Along the way Winternitz and Phelps fight tropical fever, the nocturnal sc...
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1987 Uitgever: Atlantic Monthly Press 274 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0871131625 ISBN-13: 9780871131621Koop dit boek tweedehands
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