{"product_id":"700-men-niki-robinson-ague-9798248980376","title":"700 Men: Based on a true story from the deep Congo","description":"\u003cbr\u003eSEVEN HUNDRED MEN - Back Cover\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eZanzibar, 1887.\u003c\/b\u003e Hamisi bin Amir is twenty-three years old, broke, and looking for work. When Henry Morton Stanley - the most famous explorer alive - arrives hiring porters for an expedition into the Congo, Hamisi signs on alongside his best friend Salim and a quiet former soldier named Baruti. The pay is good. The job is simple: carry loads, walk for two months, come home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe job is not simple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat follows is one of the most catastrophic expeditions in history. Seven hundred men march into the Ituri Forest - a jungle so dense the sun does not reach the ground - to rescue a colonial governor who does not want to be rescued. The two-month crossing takes five. The food runs out. The arrows are dipped in poison. The officers go mad. And the men who carry the loads, whose names appear in no diary and no history, die by the hundreds while Europe celebrates the adventure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in the voice of a man the historical record forgot, \u003ci\u003eSeven Hundred Men\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of friendship tested past its limits, of empires built on the backs of the unnamed, and of what happens when a man must choose between saving his friend and saving himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on the true events of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition, 1887-1889.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Niki Robinson Ague\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798248980376\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.34lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.32d","brand":"Niki Robinson Ague","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48454409453823,"sku":"9798248980376","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_68943fbb-3007-4d60-b4b7-8fc6dd77200a.jpg?v=1777306059","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/700-men-niki-robinson-ague-9798248980376","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}