Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in /www/libraryLand/subs/lgbt/engine/classes/templates.class.php on line 232 Call Stack: 0.0006 407440 1. {main}() /www/libraryLand/subs/lgbt/engine/rss.php:0 Tim Butcher - Free Library Land Online - LGBT https://lgbt.library.land/ ru Tim Butcher - Free Library Land Online - LGBT DataLife Engine Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa's Fighting Spirit https://lgbt.library.land/tim-butcher/34936-chasing_the_devil_the_search_for_africas_fighting_spirit.html https://lgbt.library.land/tim-butcher/34936-chasing_the_devil_the_search_for_africas_fighting_spirit.html Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa's Fighting Spirit
For many years Sierra Leone and Liberia have been too dangerous to travel through, bedevilled by a uniquely brutal form of violence from which sprang many of Africa's cruellest contemporary icons - child soldiers, prisoner mutilation, blood diamonds. With their wars officially over, Tim Butcher sets out on a journey across both countries, trekking for 350 miles through remote rainforest and malarial swamps. Just as he followed H M Stanley through the Congo - a journey described in his bestseller Blood River - this time he pursues a trail blazed by Graham Greene in 1935 and immortalised in the travel classic Journey Without Maps. Greene took 26 bearers, a case of scotch, and hammocks in which he and his cousin Barbara were carried. Tim walks every blistering inch to gain an extraordinary ground-level view of a troubled and overlooked region. As a journalist in Africa, Tim came to know both countries well although the wars made trips to the jungle hinterland far too risky. This is where he now heads, exploring how rebel groups thrived in the bush for so long and whether the devil of war has truly been chased away. He encounters other 'devils', masked figures guarding the spiritual secrets of jungle communities. Some are no more threatening than schoolmasters but others are much more sinister, relying on ritual cannibalism as a source of their magical power. Tim encounters these devils on an epic journey that demands courage, doggedness and good fortune. Chasing the Devil is a dramatic travel book touching on one of the most fraught parts of the globe at a unique moment in its history. Weaving history and anthropology with personal narrative - as well as new discoveries about Greene - it is as exciting as it is enlightening.]]> Fri, 17 Sep 2010 21:41:35 +0300 The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War https://lgbt.library.land/tim-butcher/34937-the_trigger_hunting_the_assassin_who_brought_the_world_to_war.html https://lgbt.library.land/tim-butcher/34937-the_trigger_hunting_the_assassin_who_brought_the_world_to_war.html The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
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. The Trigger tells the story of a young man who changed the world forever. It focuses on the drama of the incident itself by following Prinip’s journey. By retracing his steps from the feudal frontier village of his birth, through the mountains of the northern Balkans to the great plain city of Belgrade and ultimately Sarajevo, Tim Butcher illuminates our understanding of Princip— the person and the place that shaped him—and makes discoveries about him that have eluded historians for a hundred years. Traveling through the Balkans on Princip’s trail, and drawing on his own experiences there as a war reporter during the 1990s, Butcher unravels this complex part of the world and its conflicts, and shows how the events that were sparked that day in June 1914 still have influence today. Published for the centenary of the assassination, The Trigger is a rich and timely work, part travelogue, part reportage, and part history.]]> Wed, 17 Sep 2014 21:41:35 +0300 Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart https://lgbt.library.land/tim-butcher/34935-blood_river_a_journey_to_africas_broken_heart.html https://lgbt.library.land/tim-butcher/34935-blood_river_a_journey_to_africas_broken_heart.html Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
When Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa in 2000 he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating H.M. Stanley's famous expedition - but travelling alone.
Despite warnings that his plan was 'suicidal', Butcher set out for the Congo's eastern border with just a rucksack and a few thousand dollars hidden in his boots. Making his way in an assortment of vessels including a motorbike and a dugout canoe, helped along by a cast of characters from UN aid workers to a campaigning pygmy, he followed in the footsteps of the great Victorian adventurers.
Butcher's journey was a remarkable feat, but the story of the Congo, told expertly and vividly in this book, is more remarkable still.]]> Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:41:35 +0300 Because I am a Girl https://lgbt.library.land/tim-butcher/106827-because_i_am_a_girl.html https://lgbt.library.land/tim-butcher/106827-because_i_am_a_girl.html Because I am a Girl
Because I am a girl I am less likely to go to school Because I am a girl I am more likely to suffer from malnutritionBecause I am a girl I am more likely to suffer violence in the homeBecause I am a girl I am more likely to marry and start a family before I reach my twenties.Seven authors have visited seven different countries and spoken to young women and girls about their lives, struggles and hopes. The result is an extraordinary collection of writings about prejudice, abuse, and neglect, but also about courage, resilience and changing attitudes.Proceeds from sales of this book will go to PLAN, one of the world's largest child-centered community development organisations.]]> Sat, 11 Nov 1995 15:11:27 +0200 Blood River https://lgbt.library.land/tim-butcher/271296-blood_river.html https://lgbt.library.land/tim-butcher/271296-blood_river.html Blood River
When Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa in 2000 he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating H.M. Stanley's famous expedition -- but travelling alone.Despite warnings that his plan was 'suicidal', Butcher set out for the Congo's eastern border with just a rucksack and a few thousand dollars hidden in his boots. Making his way in an assortment of vessels including a motorbike and a dugout canoe, helped along by a cast of characters from UN aid workers to a campaigning pygmy, he followed in the footsteps of the great Victorian adventurers. Butcher's journey was a remarkable feat, but the story of the Congo, told expertly and vividly in this book, is more remarkable still.]]> Tue, 19 Nov 1996 10:50:37 +0200 Chasing the Devil https://lgbt.library.land/tim-butcher/271295-chasing_the_devil.html https://lgbt.library.land/tim-butcher/271295-chasing_the_devil.html Chasing the Devil
For many years Sierra Leone and Liberia have been too dangerous to travel through, bedevilled by a uniquely brutal form of violence from which sprang many of Africa's cruellest contemporary icons -- child soldiers, prisoner mutilation, blood diamonds. With their wars officially over, Tim Butcher sets out on a journey across both countries, trekking for 350 miles through remote rainforest and malarial swamps. Just as he followed H M Stanley through the Congo -- a journey described in his bestseller Blood River -- this time he pursues a trail blazed by Graham Greene in 1935 and immortalised in the travel classic Journey Without Maps. Greene took 26 bearers, a case of scotch, and hammocks in which he and his cousin Barbara were carried. Tim walks every blistering inch to gain an extraordinary ground-level view of a troubled and overlooked region.As a journalist in Africa, Tim came to know both countries well although the wars made trips to the jungle hinterland far too risky....]]> Fri, 19 Nov 1993 10:50:36 +0200