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    Every word is wonderful. It is a must read book, it really is a wonderful experience.

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    Tim Butcher is a Telegraph journalist, it has been his life dream to travel the Congo by the same route Stanley did when it was first mapped. The Congo is part of the Democratic Republic of Congo or as it was once called Zaire or the Belgian Congo. It is a country rich in mineral deposits and diamonds. It is wild, tropical and unfettered. Worse of all the DRC is a country at war with itself. But this we learn is probably a result of it's original colonial rule from Belgium.

    Butcher tells ...