A Giant Among Rivers: The Story of the Zaire River Expedition 1974-75Hutchinson, 1976 - 294 páginas |
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... village of Kikondja we nosed back into the channel through floating islands of weed and water - lily and isolated fishing settlements . Men sat in their pirogues paying out flimsy seine nets with one hand and paddling with the other ...
... village of Kikondja we nosed back into the channel through floating islands of weed and water - lily and isolated fishing settlements . Men sat in their pirogues paying out flimsy seine nets with one hand and paddling with the other ...
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... village ' in the language of the place , so in answer to an earlier explorer's question , ' What's the name of this river ? ' one Basoko fisherman had said to another , ' Aruwimi ? ' - which in Kilokele means ' Does he know me ? ' At a ...
... village ' in the language of the place , so in answer to an earlier explorer's question , ' What's the name of this river ? ' one Basoko fisherman had said to another , ' Aruwimi ? ' - which in Kilokele means ' Does he know me ? ' At a ...
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... village and Jim's group A would construct a road from the village to the crest of a 400 - metre hill over- looking the falls . We would manhandle the giants and all our gear down to a creek at the foot and resume THE GREAT PORTAGE 221.
... village and Jim's group A would construct a road from the village to the crest of a 400 - metre hill over- looking the falls . We would manhandle the giants and all our gear down to a creek at the foot and resume THE GREAT PORTAGE 221.
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Getting it together I | 1 |
On the move | 15 |
Kolwezi days | 35 |
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Africa ahead Air Zaire Alun Amiza arrived Avon Banana Barclays Bank Beaver Belgian Bill Coleridge Billy Bowles Bob Powell Bob Russell British Bukama camp cataract close recce Congo crew David Gestetner Derek Jackson dinghy downstream engine expedition ferry fish team fleet forest Freddy Rodger Gambier force Gécamines inflatable Isangila island jetboat Jim Masters John B-S John Connor Kananga Kayalo Keba kilometres Kindu Kinshasa Kisangani Kolwezi Kongolo Lake Land-Rover log group Lomami Lomami River look Lualaba Lubumbashi Malta Forrest Marc Smith Matadi medical research team metres Mike Gambier moved Mulongo N'Kuba N'Zilo night Nyangwe paddle Peter Pioka pirogues portage rapids recce boats recce group Richard river party road rock Roger Chapman round scientific team scientists Shaba Simba Somwe Stanley Falls Stanley's Tac HQ took trees Ubundu Upemba Upemba National Park village Vision waves Yalala Zaire River Zaïrois ZRE's