"My journey through the Congo had its ow unique category. It did not quite do it justice to call it adventure travel, and it certainly wasn't pleasure travel. My Congo journey deserved its own category..."
- Tim Butcher
"the normal laws of development are inverted here in the Congo. The forest, not the town, offers the safest sanctuary and it is grandfathers who have been more exposed to modernity than their grandchil..."
"In six harrowing weeks of travel I felt I had touched the heart of Africa and found it broken."
"Almost astride the Equator, night fell like a portcullis. The sun dropped below the horizon and suddenly all was dark."