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  1. To Africa With Love

    Blog: A Traveler's Library - 14 January 2011

    Win a Copy of This Book by commenting on this post. Destination: Africa Book: Crossing the Heart of Africa by Julian Smith (NEW December 2010) I enjoy hearing stories about the adventurers who busily mapped the globe around the end of the 19th  and the beginning of the 20th centuries. In Crossing the Heart of [...]This content is a post from: A Traveler's Library To comment on this post or search for related information, click on the link to A Traveler's Library

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  2. Gorillas In the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey

    Blog: GoBackpacking - 19 March 2010

    The man who kills the animals today is the man who kills the people who get in his way tomorrow.  — Dian Fossey A chance to see endangered mountain gorillas in the wild is the number one reason why I’m headed to Rwanda this weekend.  And it’s probably the primary reason most other travelers would [...]--------- Join Travel Blog Success today and learn to build a better travel blog. Membership includes 12 lessons, community forum, audio interviews, and a blog.

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  3. Blood River

    Blog: Travellerwill's blog - 3 September 2009

    Blood River by Tim Butcher is the bestselling travel writing book of recent years and with good reason. When he wrote it Mr Butcher was the Johannesburg correspondent of the ‘Daily Telegraph’ and while covering events in Africa he became interested in the journey of the British/American explorer H.M. Stanley across the centre of Africa, [...]

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  4. My Run-in with the Congolese Police

    Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 1 July 2009

    By John Soleanicov, KF8 DRC I could feel the beads of sweat rolling down my face.  Sitting in a makeshift police station under a tent, I was surrounded by three Congolese policemen and my accuser, a young man that could not have been past his mid twenties.  My crime: videotaping in public. As I was returning from [...]

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  5. Bienvenu a Kinshasa!

    Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 22 June 2009

    Not long after my Kenya Airways flight slalomed into N’djili Airport, I began to hear the noise.  Drum beats.  Cheering.  Flag-waving masses of people.  “Wow,” I thought, “what a welcome.”  I had heard the Congolese were welcoming, but this is a bit over the top! It turns out the ad-hoc parade wasn’t for me (Bummer!) but [...]

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