Chasing the Devil
by Tim Butcher | 
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
by Tim Butcher | 
Blood River: The Terrifying Journey Through The World's Most Dangerous Country
by Tim Butcher | 
The Emperor
by Ryszard Kapuscinski | 
Surrender or Starve
by Robert D. Kaplan | 
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
by Katherine Boo | 
In Europe
by Geert Mak | 
The City of Falling Angels
by John Berendt | 
Landmarks
by Robert Macfarlane | 
Cities of Gold
by Douglas Preston |
South with Endurance
by Frank Hurley | 
The Fourth Part of the World
by Toby Lester | 
Amsterdam
by Russell Shorto | 
A Traveller in Rome
by H. V. Morton | 
Maximum City
by Suketu Mehta | 
In Siberia
by Colin Thubron | 
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
by Jennifer B. Lee | 
Voices of the Old Sea
by Norman Lewis | 
Going Back to Bisbee
by Richard Shelton |
Looking for the Lost
by Alan Booth |
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. This travel book touches on one of the most fraught parts of the globe at a different moment in its history.