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leasttorque 's review for:
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
by Tim Butcher
I had very mixed reactions to this book. On the one hand, it gave some condensed history of the region and saved me reading a much larger history book. And that history is tied here to actual people, places, and things seen by the author. So it does, in the end, communicate the tragedy of the country.
However. In spite of the good accomplished by the book, I feared for the lives he endangered with his reckless hitchhiking. If he wanted to throw (many interminable pages of) warnings to the wind, he should have done it without dragging anyone into potential trouble with his dangling dollars or crashing the pads of people imperiled by his presence, all while being irked at not getting better service. His carriers could not afford the luxury of fear.
However. In spite of the good accomplished by the book, I feared for the lives he endangered with his reckless hitchhiking. If he wanted to throw (many interminable pages of) warnings to the wind, he should have done it without dragging anyone into potential trouble with his dangling dollars or crashing the pads of people imperiled by his presence, all while being irked at not getting better service. His carriers could not afford the luxury of fear.