"Blood River is a modern classic of travel writing. Describing an epic journey Tim Butcher endured through equatorial Africa, it sheds light on one of the planet's greatest but overlooked human dramas, the turmoil in the Congo River basin which claims 1,500 lives each day." "Tim Butcher's forty-four day journey through the Congo, Blood river also masterfully examines the troubled history of the region, from its Belgian colonization in the late nineteenth century to its current age of unending turmoil. It is an unforgettable book, a remarkable story of adventure and a celebration of the survival spirit of millions of long-suffering Congolese."--Jacket.