No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo
10 best books like No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo (Redmond O'Hanlon): Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa, A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa, Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness, Riding the Iron Rooster, Video Night in Kathmandu and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East, Iron and Silk, Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village, Motoring with Mohammed: Journeys to Yemen and the Red Sea, Baghdad Without a Map and Other Misadventures in Arabia, Where Song Began: Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World
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...
A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope of Africa
| Author | Howard W. French |
| ISBN | 1400030277 |
In A Continent for the Taking Howard W. French, a veteran correspondent for The New York Times, gives a compelling firsthand account of some of Africa’s most devastating recent history–from the fall of Mobutu Sese Seko, to Charles Taylor’s arrival in Monrovia, to the genocide in Rwanda and the...
| Author | Jeffrey Tayler |
| ISBN | 0609808265 |
Faced with an identity crisis in his work and his life, seasoned traveler and journalist Jeffrey Tayler made a bold decision. He would leave behind his mundane existence in Moscow to re-create the legendary British explorer Henry Stanley’s trip down the Congo in a dugout canoe, stocked with food,...
| Author | Paul Theroux |
| ISBN | 0804104549 |
3 Things about Riding the Iron Rooster:
(1) land sakes, Paul Theroux does not like human beings! he seem like a very disdainful and contemptuous person in general. that disdain and contempt certainly includes the Chinese - which was an off-putting and distancing thing to experience when reading...
Video Night in Kathmandu and Other Reports from the Not-So-Far East
| Author | Pico Iyer |
| ISBN | 0679722165 |
Iyer in his introduction tells us this is “less like a conventional travel diary than a series of essays” of a “casual traveler’s casual observations” of the Asia he saw “over the course of two years... [spending] a total of seven months crisscrossing the continent.” Each chapter covers...
| Author | Mark Salzman |
| ISBN | 0394755111 |
Salzman is a sweet guy, there's no doubt about it. his tales of his time in china are direct, cleanly written, and rooted in a clear love of the world around him and the people in it. he manages to effortlessly sidestep any potential landmines in terms of race, culture, or class simply by being himself - a...
| Author | Sarah Erdman |
| ISBN | 0312423128 |
The village of Nambonkaha in the Ivory Coast is a place where electricity hasn't yet arrived, where sorcerers still conjure magic, where the tok-tok sound of women pounding corn fills the morning air like a drumbeat. As Sarah Erdman enters the social fold of the village as a Peace Corps volunteer, she...
In 1978 Eric Hansen found himself shipwrecked on a desert island in the Red Sea. When goat smugglers offered him safe passage to Yemen, he buried seven years' worth of travel journals deep in the sand and took his place alongside the animals on a leaky boat bound for a country that he'd never planned to visit.
As...
| Author | Tony Horwitz |
| ISBN | 0452267455 |
"A very funny and frequently insightful look at the world's most combustible region."--
The New York Times Book Review
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
With razor-sharp wit and insight, intrepid journalist Tony Horwitz gets beyond solemn newspaper headlines and romantic myths of Arabia...
| Author | Tim Low |
| ISBN | 0670077968 |
Tim Low, award-winning author of Feral Future, in an eye-opening book on the unique nature of Australian birds and their role in ecology and global evolution.
Renowned for its unusual mammals, Australia is a land of birds that are just as unusual, just as striking, a result of the continent's...
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....
| Author | Wangari Maathai |
| ISBN | 0307377407 |
Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and founder of the Green Belt Movement, offers a refreshingly unique perspective on the challenges facing Africa, even as she calls for a moral revolution among Africans themselves, who, she argues, are culturally deracinated, adrift between worlds.
The...
