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Curious Men: Lost in the Congo

This item will be released January 4, 2026.

by Bob Kunzinger
ISBN: 978-1-963695-43-4 paperback $21.95
ISBN: 978-1-963695-44-1 ebook $9.99
Memoir
January 4, 2026

An experienced adventurer partners with an innocent nineteen-year-old to plan a journey on the most dangerous river in the world. What starts as one man’s dream ends up as another man’s nightmare. It was a time when pushing our limits knew no boundaries and being nineteen had no restrictions.

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Curious Men: Lost in the Congo by Bob Kunzinger. ethereal text is overlaid in clouds above a photo of the Allegheny River. Overlaid over the one river is a map of the Congo River basin.Curious Men: Lost in the Congo

by Bob Kunzinger
ISBN: 978-1-963695-43-4 paperback $21.95
ISBN: 978-1-963695-44-1 ebook $9.99
Memoir
January 4, 2026

Praise for Curious Men: Lost in the Congo by Bob Kunzinger

Bob Kunzinger as an especially gifted writer who is able to engage and keep his reader’s thoughtful attention from beginning to end.—Midwest Book Reviews

Engaging… memorable to say the least.—Sharon Dilworth, author of Women Drinking Benedictine

“How to Die in the Congo” [from Curious Men] is one of the best essays I’ve read in my life.—Bill Thompson, former Editor of Alabama Literary Review

 Bob Kunzinger is one of the finest non-fiction writers working today.—Amazon Reviews

A work which should be read by anyone coming of age or who has already done so.—S.E. Hinton, author of The Outsiders and Rumblefish

In “Nowhere to Be Found” from Curious Men, Bob Kunzinger laces beautiful prose and sentiment into some of the finest writing we have published.—Palooka Magazine

Bob Kunzinger’s work “Unfinished” [from Curious Men] deserves the Pushcart Prize for nonfiction.—Matador Review

Praise for A Third Place: Notes in Nature

I find in these times, I really need the prose and acuity and poetic soul of someone like Bob Kunzinger, who has mastered the art of turning time into the essay, which is his gift to his readers. A truly redemptive writer working at the top of his game.–Jackie Lyden, author, Daughter of the Queen of Sheeba, and former host and correspondent, NPR News

Author Bob Kunzinger looking serious. He is a white man wearing a white t-shirt. His hairline isn't where it used to be, and he wears wire rimmed glasses.Bob Kunzinger is the author of a dozen non-fiction works, including The Iron Scar: A Father and Son in Siberia, and Out of Nowhere: Scenes from St. Petersburg. His work has appeared in many publications. He lives along the Rappahannock River in Virginia.

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