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This book is a celebration and a critique of present-day Zaire in the tradition of literary travel writing, counter-pointed by the experiences in 1890 of three writer/adventurers. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Polish novelist, went upriver on a "tin-pot steamer" to the "Heart of Darkness"; Roger Casement (1864-1916), Irish nationalist, exposed Congo Free State atrocities in his "Congo Report"; and Daniel Crawford (1870-1926), Scottish missionary-explorer and the author's great-uncle, at nineteen walked from the west coast into Katanga, completing Livingstone's last journey. Their books, letters, journals gave the author the map for his own journey. (DÜI-Hff)