Facing the Congo

by Tayler, Jeffrey

• ISBN13: 9781886913448
• ISBN10: 1886913447
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Ruminator Books

Summary

Tayler's haunting travel adventure follows his 1,100-mile trip up the Congo River on a barge teeming with merchants, deckhands, prostitutes, mothers, spiritual followers, fishermen, and children. Readers feel the oppressive heat hanging wet in the night air over the floating marketplace, and shudder at the slither and crunch of the stirfried worms that Tayler reluctantly ingests. On his trek downriver, Tayler is met with even greater challenges as he battles for survival, paddling though the adverse elements on a tiny pirogue. At times lost in the fog-covered backwaters, at others faced by tribes of people whose ancestors were murdered by those with white skin, Tayler's level of comfort is pushed to its limits, transforming his adventure into a journey of discovery.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Prologue: Visions of a River	xiii
Brazzaville	3	(14)
The Beach	17	(14)
Kinshasa	31	(12)
The Colonel	43	(16)
Shoving Off	59	(18)
Stowaways	77	(10)
Dancing on the Equator	87	(6)
Into the Great Forest	93	(20)
Upriver	113	(16)
Kisangani	129	(10)
Alone on the River	139	(16)
Land without Evenings	155	(14)
The Woes of SNIP	169	(8)
Omens	177	(14)
Danger	191	(18)
Lisala	209	(14)
Crisis	223	(18)
Chasing the Ebeya	241	(8)
Mbandaka Again	249	(8)
Epilogue	257	(4)
List of Illustrations	261