Voyage au Congo - French Edition Author:Andre Gide In July 1925, French novelist André Gide, accompanied by filmmaker Marc Allegret, his lover, took a ten-month trip that encompassed the French Congo, touched briefly on the Belgian Congo, and then swung north to Chad, the territory of Ubangui-Shari, and coming back to the ocean via a long journey through the entire length of Cameroon. Wha... more »t with the tsetse flies, the ringworm, and strange jungle fevers which killed not a few of their party, this was not in any way deluxe travel. Although Allegret was some thirty years his junior, Gide ran into considerable difficulties toward the latter part of the trip as they passed through a devastating heat wave in a country that had been scorched by brush fires. Toward the end, Gide was almost blind and required strong medicines to enable him to sleep; and Allegret was besieged by toothache and fever until the last few hundred miles. [from worldcat]« less