A non-fiction book about the area surrounding this river described how the soldier Leon Rom kept decapitated heads in his flower bed.
A non-fiction book about the area surrounding this river described how the soldier Leon Rom kept decapitated heads in his flower bed. The chant "Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, BOOM" is repeated in a poem describing this river "creeping through the black, cutting through the jungle with a golden track." A 1998 book by journalist Adam Hochschild takes its name from a line in a (*) Vachel Lindsay (VAY-chul LIN-zee) poem about this river. The narrator of a novel discovers a report about this river's natives that ends with the handwritten message "Exterminate all the brutes!" An ivory trader dies on this river after exclaiming "The horror! The horror!" For 10 points, name this African river, which Marlow travels up in search of Kurtz in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
A non-fiction book about the area surrounding this river described how the soldier Leon Rom kept decapitated heads in his flower bed.
Congo River