Viking Press, 1963, 277 pages The years is 1963. From the southernmost city of Portuguese Angola, five Europeans - three men and two girls - set out for the Congo River in a pickup truck and a jeep. This engrossing novel of outward and inward adventure tells how, with emotions at fever pitch, they made their illegal journey of more than two thousand miles, over the worst trails in Africa, through regions laid desolate by civil war and anarchy.