Chasing the Devil: A Journey Through Sub-Saharan Africa in the Footsteps of Graham Greene - Hardcover

Butcher, Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1935633295 ISBN 13: 9781935633297

Publisher: Atlas Books, 2011

Synopsis

Of all the anarchic and war-torn African nations, none is more forbidding than Liberia, the land that nurtured child soldiers, the violent trade in "blood diamonds," even ritual murder. Graham Greene, in search of extreme adventure, ventured through its dense jungles to write the travel classic Journey Without Maps; three-quarters of a century later, Tim Butcher decided to follow Greene's footsteps, only to find the path even more ominous and overgrown than in his predecessor's day. Among the devils he encounters are masked sorcerers whose magical powers depend on cannibalism and missionaries long forgotten in the hinterland he traverses. Butcher, a former African correspondent for the London Telegraph and author of Blood River, his best-selling account of a dramatic journey through the Congo, has produced in this thrilling sequel a book that The Independent hails as "fascinating, harrowing, and eventful."

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Edition details

• Publisher: Atlas Books
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1935633295
• ISBN 13: 9781935633297
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 325