Crossing the Congo

Over Land and Water in a Hard Place

von Mike Martin, Chloe Baker, Charlie Hatch-Barnwell

256 Seiten, Hardcover

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*** Shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award 2016 in the category of Adventure Travel *** >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 humor and sensitivity.

• ISBN: 9781849046855
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.12.2016
• Größe: 241 x 164 mm
• Verlag: Hurst & Co.