Hydrography and Navigation on the Congo River: A Century of Visual History

Preface
About the Maps and Charts
Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Author
Abbreviations
Part I: General Hydrographic Description of the Haut-Congo Basin
	Chapter 1: Introduction to the General Geography of the DRC
	Chapter 2: Early Shipping on the Haut-Congo
	Chapter 3: From the Source to Kisangani: The Upper-Congo
	Chapter 4: From Kisangani to Mbandaka: The High Middle-Congo and Ubangi
	Chapter 5: The Low Middle-Congo: From Mbandaka to Tsumbiri
	Chapter 6: The Last Stretch to Kinshasa: The Congo Couloir
	Chapter 7: The Upper-Kasai Watershed
	Chapter 8: The Sankuru, Fimi-Lukenie, and Lower-Kasai Tributaries
		8.1 The Sankuru River System
		8.2 The Fimi-Lukenie Watershed
		8.3 The Lower-Kasai Tributaries
	Chapter 9: The Kwango and Kwilu Watersheds
		9.1 The Kwango River System
		9.2 The Kwilu River
	Chapter 10: The Congo Cataracts
Part II: Early European Mapping of the Maritime Congo River
	Chapter 11: The First Europeans Venture Up the Congo Estuary
		11.1 Conquering the Cataracts
	Chapter 12: The Kouilou-Niari, an Alternative Access?
	Chapter 13: The Voyage from Europe to Congo
		13.1 Belgium Takes Over the Congo
Part III The Hydrography of the Maritime Congo River
	Chapter 14: Introduction to the Bas-Congo
		14.1 Climatological Observations
		14.2 Population of the Kongo-Central Province
		14.3 The Top Soil
		14.4 Vegetation Along the Maritime Congo
		14.5 The Congo River Discharge
	Chapter 15: Early Maps of the Maritime River
		15.1 Physical Description of the ``Divagante´´ Region
		15.2 From Boma to Matadi
	Chapter 16: The Acute Need for Bathymetric Surveys
		16.1 The First Soundings
		16.2 Pierre Van Deuren
	Chapter 17: Hydrographic Basics in the Tropics
		17.1 The Role of the Hydrographic Team
		17.2 The Topographical Methods
	Chapter 18: A New Navigation Channel in the Making
		18.1 The Nisot and Mayaudon Passes
	Chapter 19: The Mateba Deceiving Bend (Barrage du Faux-Bras de Mateba)
	Chapter 20: Difficult Years
		20.1 Where Is the Border Exactly?
		20.2 The War Years
		20.3 Alexandr Khokhloff Returns
	Chapter 21: Independence in 1960
		21.1 The Scale Model
		21.2 Nineteen Seventies, Ups and Downs
		21.3 About Dredging
	Chapter 22: Based on Detailed Land Surveys
	Chapter 23: Epilogue: A Concept for the Future?
Appendices
	Appendix 1: A Brief History of the ``Congolaise des Voies Maritimes´´ (CVM)
	Appendix 2: Congo Waterways Interbellum Figures
		Selected Data on the Maritime Congo
Glossary
Bibliography