Research Catalog

Title

Facing the Congo : a modern-day journey into the heart of darkness / Jeffrey Tayler.

Author

Tayler, Jeffrey

Publication

New York, NY. : Three Rivers Press, c2000.

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Details

Description

xxii, 261 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

"Facing the Congo transports readers into the lush jungles and crocodile-infested waters of sub-Saharan Africa. Climbing the river on a barge teeming with merchants, deck-hands, prostitutes, mothers, spiritual followers, fishermen, and children, Tayler participates in the lively banter of this floating marketplace, and at night drapes mosquito netting over his cramped sleeping space, relishing a few hours of solitude between days wrought with adversity and suspicion."--Jacket.

Subject

• Tayler, Jeffrey > Journeys > Congo River
• Congo River > Description and travel
• Congo River Region > Description and travel

Genre/Form

• Autobiography
• Autobiographies.

Note

• "Special advanced readers edition"-- Cover.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Prologue: Visions of a River -- Brazzaville -- The Beach -- Kinshasa -- The Colonel -- Shoving Off -- Stowaways -- Dancing on the Equator -- Into the Great Forest -- Upriver -- Kisangani -- Alone on the River -- Land without Evenings -- The Woes of SNIP -- Omens -- Danger -- Lisala -- Crisis -- Chasing the Ebeya -- Mbandaka Again.

ISBN

0609808265 (pbk)

LCCN

^^^00034211^

OCLC

44084090

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library