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A LONG WAY FROM BRAZZAVILLE
This title will be published in mid 2009.
Details will be posted here as they become available.
This massive book project undertaken by artist and author Paul Augustinus is now finally nearing completion and all of the 30 paintings and 100 sketches that will illustrate this book will also form part of a future show.

DESCRIPTION
25cm x 19cm portrait format, hard cover, color jacket, 280 pages, 45 color plates with 65 color photographs100 line drawings/sketches, 4 maps, bibliography, index and foreword..

The book is an amusing account of a strange and hastily cobbled together journey by Paul and Clarissa Augustinus to the vast wilderness of the Ndoki rainforests of northern Congo Brazaville. - ostensibly to see and paint a wild bongo antelope in the field, an animal that Paul Augustinus describes as the most beautiful that he has ever seen.
The account describes the planning of the expedition, the journey to the Congo and the trials and tribulations they went through alone with a band of mutinous Benjele Pygmies deep in the heart of the rainforest. They ate what the pygmies ate, hunted for the pot, and experienced spectacular sightings of forest elephant, bongo, gorilla, chimpanzee, and Giant Forest Hogs. Arrested by a corrupt Forest Official on the way out through Ouesso, their equipment and film lay confiscated in a warehouse for several months before being rescued by a European NGO - a fitting cliffhanger end to a journey filled with strange characters and a veritable rouges gallery of rebellious pygmies