Tim Butcher is een Britse auteur, journalist en omroepman, bekend om zijn meeslepende verhalen uit conflictgebieden en zijn avontuurlijke reizen. Zijn schrijven wordt gekenmerkt door nauwkeurige observatie en diepgaande verkenning van de plaatsen die hij bezoekt, waarbij hij zich vaak verdiept in de geschiedenis en de impact van conflicten op gewone mensen. Butcher's stijl is zowel analytisch als boeiend, en biedt lezers inzichtelijke perspectieven op complexe sociale en politieke landschappen.
Chasing the Devil tells the story of Tim Butcher's audacious expedition from Freetown at the mouth of the Sierra Leone river overland through forest-covered mountains and malarial plains to the coast of Liberia. He ventures deep into areas not visited by outsiders for years. Both nations are on a developmental cusp and Tim explores whether national and international attempts to chase away the devil of war can succeed.
Facing down demons from his time in Africa as a journalist, Tim Butcher heads deep into this combat zone, encountering the devastation wrought by lawless militia, child soldiers, brutal violence, blood diamonds and masked figures who guard the spiritual secrets of remote jungle communities.
Despite warnings about marauding rebels, Tim Butcher travels alone along the Congo River for 2,500 kilometers, from Lake Tanganyika to Boma. Using various modes of transport, he explores "Africa's broken heart," driven by a desire to understand a country under the world's largest UN peacekeeping mission. His account is a brave and compelling eyewitness report.
"On a summer morning in Sarajevo almost a hundred years ago, a teenager took a pistol out of his pocket and fired not just the opening rounds of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history. By killing Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Gavrilo Princip started a cycle of events that would leave 15 million dead from fighting between 1914 and 1918 and proved fatal for empires and a way of ruling that had held for centuries."--Publisher's description.
'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 adventurous journeys a journalist has made.
Heart of Darkness has been considered for most of this century as a literary classic, and also as a powerful indictment of the evils of imperialism. It reflects the savage repressions carried out in the Congo by the Belgians in one of the largest acts of genocide committed up to that time. Conrad's narrator encounters at the end of the story a man named Kurtz, dying, insane, and guilty of unspeakable atrocities.
The eighteenth annual Rugby League yearbook produced by thegame’s biggest selling newspaper, Rugby Leaguer & League Express. It has anin-depth statistical section, chapters on every major competition and a record of every game in Super League, the Challenge Cup, the Championship, Championship One and the Northern Rail Cup.It is illustrated with many high-quality full colour and black-and-whitephotographs. AlsoPersonalities of the Season.Month-by-month review of Super League XVIII.Championship & Championship One season review.Full records of every player to have played in Super League.Grand Final history.Longest serving players.