Some time ago I read and reviewed Tim Butcher’s Blood River, about his journey along the Congo River, and I’m afraid to say I wasn’t terribly complementary about it. I didn’t like his style or attitude, and thought I would rather find other books on Africa. Yet when I learnt about his recent book, Chasing The Devil: The Search for Africa’s Fighting Spirit, I found myself keen to give it a go. Perhaps it was the African journey again which drew me in, but I have to admit there was also a hope that I might enjoy Butcher’s writing more second time round.
Chasing The Devil is Butcher’s account of a journey across Sierra Leone and Liberia. Like Blood River, he is again recreating an earlier journey, this time the trip made by author Graham Greene and his cousin Barbara in 1935.
