# Crossing the Congo

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- Book: [Crossing the Congo](https://www.bookquiver.com/charlie-hatch-barnwell/crossing-the-congo) ([Crossing the Congo.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/charlie-hatch-barnwell/crossing-the-congo.md))
- Authors: [Charlie Hatch-Barnwell](https://www.bookquiver.com/charlie-hatch-barnwell), [Mike Martin](https://www.bookquiver.com/mike-martin), [Chloe Baker](https://www.bookquiver.com/chloe-baker)
- Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers
- ISBN: 978-17-8738-962-5
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2023-03-23
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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 two and a half thousand 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 to cross rivers, 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 a story of friendship, 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.