In 2001, Tim Butcher, Africa correspondent for London's The Daily Telegraph, first saw the Congo and became obsessed with crossing the country via the Congo River. Civil war made it impossible until ...

As a war reporter for the Telegraph, Tim Butcher's work has taken him to many of the most dangerous locations in the world over the past 20 years: Basra, Monrovia, Sarajevo. Yet undoubtedly the ...

In 2004, journalist Butcher (Blood River) made a journey through the Congo, following a trail blazed by the 19th-century adventurer and author Henry Morton Stanley and tracing the evolution of a ...

Go to any library anywhere in the United States and you’ll almost invariably be able to find picture books, along with framed pictures on the walls of how things used to be in the area where the ...

CEDAR FALLS — Northern Iowa defensive tackle Jared Brinkman gets a lot of attention from opposing offensive lines and rightfully so. The Iowa City Regina grad is an All-American and reigning Missouri ...

Journalist Butcher (Blood River) makes a significant contribution to the growing body of literature on the outbreak of WWI by retracing the physical, mental, and emotional road to Sarajevo for Gavrilo ...

Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa's Fighting Spirit. By Tim Butcher. Chatto & Windus; 325 pages; £18.99. Buy from Amazon.co.uk IN HIS bestselling book about the Congo, “Blood River”, Tim ...

Clever title — the trigger that fired the shot, and the trigger that set in motion a series of events that led to the First World War. The assassin who pulled the trigger and killed Archduke Franz ...