Another great book is Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart. Congo is the most dangerous location on the planet, it's ruled by fear. The Belgians were the cruellest colonisers, and the Katanga Panhandle is the richest mineral deposit on the planet, which means peace will probably never come to that region.
The good thing, there's always a silver lining, is that those forests are the lungs of the planet, so where the Amazon jungle is under threat from development, that's not the case with the Congo jungle. Congo is the size of Western Europe, and there are areas in the North West of that jungle which is still unexplored.
The good thing, there's always a silver lining, is that those forests are the lungs of the planet, so where the Amazon jungle is under threat from development, that's not the case with the Congo jungle. Congo is the size of Western Europe, and there are areas in the North West of that jungle which is still unexplored.