Tim Butcher: 3 books
Blood River
The Terrifying Journey through the World's Most Dangerous Country
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
A British journalist retraces the legendary 1874 expedition of H. M. Stanley in this “remarkable marriage of travelogue and history” (Max Hastings, author of Armageddon).
When Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to Africa in 2000,. he quickly became obsessed with the Congo...
The Trigger
Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
From the author of Blood River: “A splendid book, part memoir, part history,” about the teenager who killed Archduke Ferdinand and sparked WWI (Norman Stone, author of World War One).
Sarajevo, 1914. On a June morning, nineteen-year-old Gavrilo Princip drew a pistol from his pocket and fired...
by Tim Butcher, Xiaolu Guo, Joanne Harris
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
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 malnutrition
Because I am a girl I am more likely to suffer violence in the home
Because I am a girl I am more likely to marry and start a family before I reach my twenties.
Seven...