Butcher, Tim

On a summer morning in Sarajevo a hundred years ago, Gavrilo Princip took a pistol out of his pocket and started World War I by assassinating the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His actions changed the world forever. In this book, the author retraces Princip's steps and shows how the events that took place that day in June 1914 still have an influence in our world today.

Tim Butcher, a reporter for "The Daily Telegraph," details his experiences after being sent to Africa in 2000 to trace the roots of the Congo; and while he follows the historic route laid down by the nineteenth-century explorer Henry Morton Stanley, Butcher encounters missionary aid workers, a pygmy leader, and more.