5 Quotes & Sayings By Tim Butcher

Tim Butcher is a new author who has written his first three books in the late 1980s but didn't publish them until he was 40 years old. He was born in Camberley, Surrey and moved to America in 2002. He was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome in 2003 and lives in Virginia with his American wife and three sons.

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My journey through the Congo had its ow unique category. It did not quite do it justice to call it adventure travel, and it certainly wasn't pleasure travel. My Congo journey deserved its own category: ordeal travel. At every turn I faced challenges, difficulties and threats when in the Congo. The challenge was to assess and choose the option best suited to making progress. But there were moments when there were no alternatives, or shortcuts or clever ideas. At these times, ordeal travel became really no ordeal at all. . Tim Butcher
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The normal laws of development are inverted here in the Congo. The forest, not the town, offers the safest sanctuary and it is grandfathers who have been more exposed to modernity than their grandchildren. I can think of nowhere else on the planet where the same can be true.” p141 Tim Butcher
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In six harrowing weeks of travel I felt I had touched the heart of Africa and found it broken. Tim Butcher
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Almost astride the Equator, night fell like a portcullis. The sun dropped below the horizon and suddenly all was dark. Tim Butcher