{
    "id": 493092,
    "slug": "blood-river-tim-butcher",
    "nstc": null,
    "title": "Blood River",
    "subtitle": "Tim Butcher",
    "collection_title": null,
    "collection_part_number": null,
    "annotation": null,
    "description": "<p>When Daily Telegraph correspondent Tim Butcher was sent to cover Africa he quickly became obsessed with the idea of recreating H.M. Stanley's famous expedition - but travelling alone. Despite warnings that his plan was 'suicidal', Butcher set out for the Congo's eastern border with just a rucksack and a few thousand dollars hidden in his boots. Making his way in an assortment of vessels including a motorbike and a dugout canoe, helped along by a cast of characters from UN aid workers to a campaigning pygmy</p>",
    "imprint": null,
    "language_code": "eng",
    "original_language_code": null,
    "page_count": 384,
    "duration_seconds": null,
    "publication_date_first": "2019-06-06",
    "publication_date_latest": "2019-06-06",
    "cover_url": null,
    "editions": [
        {
            "isbn": "9781784875381",
            "product_form": "BC"
        }
    ],
    "ratings_count": 0,
    "read_count": 0,
    "review_count": 0,
    "favorite_count": 0,
    "reading_status_read_count": 0,
    "reading_status_reading_count": 0,
    "reading_status_want_to_read_count": 0,
    "rating_average": null,
    "ratings_distribution": {
        "1": 0,
        "2": 0,
        "3": 0,
        "4": 0,
        "5": 0
    },
    "created_at": "2025-09-19T14:34:13+00:00",
    "updated_at": "2025-10-28T00:41:06+00:00",
    "publisher": {
        "id": 6637,
        "slug": "ballantine-books",
        "name": "Ballantine Books",
        "created_at": "2025-09-19T13:11:52+00:00",
        "updated_at": "2025-09-19T15:13:46+00:00"
    },
    "contributors": [
        {
            "id": 306217,
            "slug": "tim-butcher-2",
            "key_names": "Butcher",
            "names_before_key": "Tim",
            "prefix_to_key": null,
            "contributor_role": "A01",
            "readable_contributor_role": "Author"
        }
    ],
    "genres": [],
    "subjects": [
        {
            "scheme_identifier": "32",
            "scheme_version": null,
            "main_subject": false,
            "subject_code": "300",
            "created_at": "2025-09-19T14:34:13+00:00",
            "updated_at": "2025-09-19T14:34:13+00:00"
        }
    ]
}