num_pages: 274
description: In this brilliant mix of political journalism and travel writing, Helen Winternitz and fellow journalist Timothy Phelps witness what few Westerners life in the ecologically rich but financially impoverished American-backed dictatorship of Zaire, the former Belgian Congo.
language: English
title: East Along the Equator: A Journey up the Congo and into Zaire
titlecomplete: East Along the Equator: A Journey up the Congo and into Zaire (Traveler / Atlantic Monthly Press)
genres: Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Africa, Travel, Nonfiction, Memoir
ratings_count: 90
publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press