Chasing the devil
Subtitle: a journey through sub-Saharan Africa in the footsteps of Graham Greene
By: Tim Butcher
Publisher: Atlas & Co.; Distributed to the trade by W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9781935633297
Subjects: Travel; Description and travel
Other titles: Journey through sub-saharan Africa in the footsteps of Graham Greene
Description: Tim Butcher follows Graham Greene's footsteps into Liberia where he encounters masked sorcerers whose magical powers depend on cannibalism and long forgotten missionaries.
Notes: First published in Great Britain in 2010 by Chatto & Windus as Chasing the devil : the search for Africa's fighting spirit.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-312) and index.
Table of contents: title: A stone in my shoe; title: Province of freedom; title: Looking for Bruno; title: No provocation to anger; title: Peace garden; title: Falloe's stick; title: Message in a bottle; title: Screams  in the jungle; title: Guinea worm; title: The cry of the bull-roarer; title: Daventry calling; title: The Devil's last dance.