Travel guru to tell Congo tales

ONE of the world’s best-loved travel writers, Redmond O’Hanlon, is guest speaker at the Immrama Literary Breakfast taking place next Sunday in Lismore, Co Waterford.

Described by Bill Bryson as “probably the finest writer of travel books in the English language”, Redmond O’Hanlon will speak about his travels, with particular reference to his book Congo Journey, first published in 1996.

An account of a six-month trip through the rainforest of the Northern Congo Basin, this book details how he enters the unmapped swamp forests of the Republic of the Congo in search of a dinosaur rumoured to have survived in a remote prehistoric lake.