Crossing the Congo: Over Land and Water in a Hard Place By Mike Martin

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In 2013, three friends set off on a journey that they had been told was impossible: the north-south crossing of the Congo River Basin, from Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to Juba, in South Sudan.Traversing 2,500 miles of the toughest terrain on the planet in a twenty-five year-old Land Rover, they faced repeated challenges, from kleptocracy and fire ants to non-existent roads and intense suspicion from local people. Through imagination and teamwork -- including building rafts and bridges, conducting makeshift surgery in the jungle and playing tribal politics -- they got through. But the Congo is raw, and the journey took an unexpected psychological toll on them all.Crossing the Congo is an offbeat travelogue, a story of friendship and what it takes to complete a great journey against tremendous odds, and an intimate look into one of the world's least-developed and most fragile states, told with humor and sensitivity.

At this time of writing, The Ebook Crossing the Congo: Over Land and Water in a Hard Place has garnered 9 customer reviews with rating of 5 out of 5 stars. Not a bad score at all as if you round it off, it’s actually a perfect TEN already. From the looks of that rating, we can say the Ebook is Good TO READ!

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In 2013, two well-educated Brits, a physician, and her fiancé, a former British Army officer with a PhD, and an Indonesian-born friend, an award-winning photographer and London kebob shop owner, set out on a 2,500-mile north-south crossing of the Democratic Republic of Congo, in an old 1986 Land Rover 90, which they called 9Bob (apparently from English slang "as bent as a 9 bob note," meaning something shady.The story of their journey is mostly written by Mike Martin, and the stunning photographs that help to make the book are by Charlie Hatch-Barnwell.Exactly why the three became so determined to make this two-month journey isn't completely clear, except that they saw it as an adventure. They also wanted to "improve their French," they say (French is the official language of the DRC, a former Belgian colony, although some 250 languages are spoken in the country, which has a population of more than 80 million and is about one-fourth the size of the continental U.S.) Martin and his fiancée, Chloe Baker already had driven some 20,000 miles in Africa and elsewhere, though Senegal, Mauritania, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Cote d'Ivoire. They then recruit Charlie, an old friend and international travel mate of Mike's, to join them for the DRC part of the trip.What they found, and essentially what the book recounts, is a country with incredibly bad roads, corrupt officials, extreme poverty and a population that, in part due to the effects of its colonial past, to recent civil and guerrilla wars, was for the most part inhospitable (though it was only through the kindnesses of a number of people that they were able to complete the journey.)The journey also was a psychological as well as physical and mechanical test. Mike and Chloe break up during the trip, and at times their friendships unravel. More than anything, though, the success traversing of the DRG is a tribute to the ingenuity of the three travelers and to the engineering of the old English-built Land Rover. The three travelers were amazingly creative in building bridges and rafts to cross rivers and in making their way on roads that defy belief, often with pot holes deep enough to swallow a truck or with muddy ruts so high the Land Rover would fall over on its side.I have driven some bad roads in Central America, but none even begin to compare with what Martin, Baker and Hatch-Barnwell faced almost daily. The also were geniuses at finding parts and cobbling together repairs to the Land Rover 90. None of the three was particularly mechanically inclined. They learned how to repair the Land Rover by reading manuals and by just figuring things out.Although this is a true adventure story and a travelogue of a kind, it is not one that will make you want to travel to this part of Africa. Local people constantly try to charge the travelers 10 times the fair value of food and parts. The travelers have to be on constant guard against theft. Anytime they stop, crowds appear out of the jungle and persistently beg them for everything they are carrying. Even the missionaries in the Congo try to rip them off, once demanding $500 to spend the night at a mission (the travelers end bargaining the price down to $30). The adventurers are constantly ill from tropical diseases and the water, bitten or stung by insects and fearful of attacks by rebels or by illegal blood diamond and other miners.. Everyone is suspicious of them, partly because -- they find out too late -- that in referring to themselves "tourists" in the local French a tourist is "conservationist" -- someone in the DRG to exploit the local people and the country's resources.If there's a hero in the book, though, it has to be 9Bob. The diesel Land Rover 90, broken down by so many miles through impossible terrain, keeps plugging through places where other vehicles could never go, and somehow, miraculously, a fix is always found for the many broken springs, steering boxes, axles and wheels.One can only admire the three adventures and the Land Rover for making it through the Congo.

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