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Pages: 252
Authors: Eric Sevareid
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08 - Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society

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In 1930 two novice paddlers?Eric Sevareid and Walter C. Port?launched a secondhand 18-foot canvas canoe into the Minnesota River at Fort Snelling for an ambitio
Facing the Congo
Language: en
Pages: 326
Authors: Jeffrey Tayler
Categories: Congo (Democratic Republic)
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-02 - Publisher: Abacus (UK)

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This book transports readers into the jungles and crocodile-infested waters of sub-Saharan Africa. The author travels a river barge teeming with merchants, moth
Blood River
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Pages: 386
Authors: Tim Butcher
Categories: Congo (Democratic Republic)
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Random House

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'Blood River' is a readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and what is perhaps one of the most daring and adventu
Canoe and Canvas
Language: en
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Authors: Jessica Dunkin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-10 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Canoe and Canvas is a close reading of the annual meetings and encampments of the American Canoe Association between 1880 and 1910.
A Nervous State
Language: en
Pages: 223
Authors: Nancy Rose Hunt
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-12-30 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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In A Nervous State, Nancy Rose Hunt considers the afterlives of violence and harm in King Leopold’s Congo Free State. Discarding catastrophe as narrative form