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5. Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness, by Jeffrey Tayler

Another book set in an exotic yet dangerous jungle, “Congo” is written by journalist and veteran traveler Jeffrey Tayler, who decides to abandon his comfortable life and journey down the Congo River in a dugout canoe, inspired by the same voyage of Henry Morton Stanley, the 19th-century journalist and explorer. In addition to describing the plethora of challenges faced along the way, Tayler reflects on how he felt as a white man in a continent scarred by racial conflict.

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