Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness

8 best books like Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness (Jeffrey Tayler): Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa, The Places in Between, Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe, No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo, Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu, Chasing King's Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Assassin, The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction, I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa

Author	Jason Stearns
ISBN	1586489291

At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and unstaunchable war in which millions have died. And yet, despite its epic proportions, it has received little sustained media attention. In this deeply...

The Places in Between

Author	Rory Stewart
ISBN	0156031566

In January 2002 Rory Stewart walked across Afghanistan-surviving by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. By day he passed through mountains covered in nine feet of snow, hamlets burned and emptied by the Taliban, and communities thriving...

Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe

Author	Gérard Prunier
ISBN	0195374207

The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork...

No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo

Author	Redmond O'Hanlon
ISBN	0679737324

Redmond O'Hanlon has journeyed among headhunters in deepest Borneo with the poet James Fenton, and amid the most reticent, imperilled and violent tribe in the Amazon Basin with a night-club manager. This, however, is his boldest journey yet. Accompanied by Lary Shaffer - an American friend and animal...

Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu

Author	Kira Salak
ISBN	0792274571

After 37 years of never reading about Mali, I have managed two books about that country in the last month. The previous book (The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu: And Their Race to Save the World’s Most Precious Manuscripts) gave more information about the history of the region, and informed my reading...

Chasing King's Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Assassin

Author	James L. Swanson
ISBN	0545723337

An astonishing account of the assassination of America's most beloved and celebrated civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, by NY Times bestselling author, James L. Swanson.
NAACP Image Award Nominee
Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year
Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book...

The Invaders: How Humans and Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals to Extinction

Author	Pat Shipman
ISBN	0674736761

With their large brains, sturdy physique, sophisticated tools, and hunting skills, Neanderthals are the closest known relatives to humans. Approximately 200,000 years ago, as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa, Neanderthals were already thriving...

I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation

Author	Michela Wrong
ISBN	0060780932

Scarred by decades of conflict and occupation, the craggy African nation of Eritrea has weathered the world's longest-running guerrilla war. The dogged determination that secured victory against Ethiopia, its giant neighbor, is woven into the national psyche, the product of cynical foreign interventions....