 The book was edited by Nowak's daughter Elżbieta Nowak-Gliszewska and photographs were selected after consultation with professors Jan Czekanowski and Jerzy Loth.Kazimierz Nowak's accounts of the travel were first published jointly only as late as 2000, in a book entitled "Rowerem i pieszo przez Czarny Ląd" (Across the Dark Continent).The Polish reporter Ryszard Kapuściński said in 2006 that it "is an utterly exceptional book", and added that