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SUMMARY:Armchair Travel Book Club
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DESCRIPTION:Join us on Zoom (Meeting ID: 893 4439 0868) as we continue our
  journey around the world. This month, we're back to Africa with Brit
 ish journalist Tim Butcher to take on the Congo as we discuss his book Bl
 ood River: The Terrifying Journey through the World’s Most Dangerous Cou
 ntry.\r\nAbout the book: "A British journalist retraces the legendary
  1874 expedition of H. M. Stanley in this "remarkable marriage of tra
 velogue and history" (Max Hastings, author of Armageddon).\r\nWhen Da
 ily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to Africa in 2000, he qui
 ckly became obsessed with the Congo River and the idea of recreating H. M.
  Stanley's nineteenth-century journey along the nearly three-thousand
 -mile waterway. Despite repeated warnings that his plan was suicidal, Butc
 her set out for the Congo's eastern border with just a backpack and a
  few thousand dollars hidden in his boots.\r\nMaking his way in an assortm
 ent of vehicles, including a motorbike and a dugout canoe, helped along by
  a cast of characters from UN aid workers to a pygmy rights advocate, he f
 ollows in the footsteps of the great Victorian adventurer. Butcher's 
 forty-four-day journey along the Congo River is an unforgettable story of 
 exploration, survival, and history come to life."
URL:https://www.lincolnlibrary.info/event/armchair-travel-book-club-7
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