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Lauded for his ability to tell compelling, true adventure stories, award-winning author Andrew C.A. Jampoler has turned his attention this time to a young American naval officer on a mission up the Congo River in May 1885. Lt. Emory Taunt was ordered to explore as much of the river as possible and report on opportunities for Americans in the potentially rich African marketplace. A little more than five years later, Taunt, 39, was buried near the place he had first come ashore in Africa. His personal demons and the Congo's lethal fevers had killed him. In 2011, to better understand what happene

Explorers --- Taunt, Emory H. --- Travel --- Belgium --- Congo (Democratic Republic) --- Congo (Democratic Republic) --- Congo River Valley --- Colonies --- Colonization. --- History --- Discovery and exploration.