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Michael Crichton Congo
Deep in the heart of the darkest region of the Congo, an eight-person field expedition dies mysteriously and brutally in a matter of minutes...
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Congo To Cuba
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Briyumba Palo Congo - Religion Of The Co
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World Bank,The,U.S. Education in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Priorities and Options for Regeneration
Pages: 172, Paperback, World Bank,The,U.S.
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Algora Publishing,US The Tragic State of Congo: From Decolonization to Dictatorship
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Congo Democratique
Kabila le Sanguinaire author: Meitho, Kisukula Abeli; publisher: Kisukula Abeli Meitho
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Congo
From the best selling novel by Michael Crichton. A group of scientists with all the latest technology are searching for the fabled lost city of Zinj and its diamond mines deep in the African jungle. Each day they talk to base in America by satellite. While reporting in, a large unknown being attacks the camp and smashes the satellite link. An expedition, accompanied by Amy, a gorilla who was part of a university learning experiment, is sent to find out what happened to the previous expedition team.
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Penguin Books Ltd Congo Journey
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Arrow Congo
If you saw the 1995 film adaptation of this Crichton thriller, somebody owes you an apology. While you're waiting for <I>that</I> to happen, try reading the vastly more intelligent novel on which the movie was based. The broad lines of the plot remain the same: A research team deep in the jungle disappears after a mysterious and grisly gorilla attack. A subsequent team, including a sign-language-speaking simian named Amy, follows the original team's tracks only to be subjected to more mysterious and grisly gorilla attacks. If you can look past the breathless treatment of 80s' technology, like voice-recognition software and 256K RAM modules (the book was written in 1980), you'll find the same smart use of science and edge-of-your-seat suspense shared by Crichton's other work. <I>--Paul Hughes, Amazon.com</I>
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African Designs of the Congo
author: Caraway, C.; publisher: Stemmer Ho.,U.S.
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University Press of the Pacific Red Rubber: The Story of the Rubber Slave Trade Flourishing on the Congo on the Year of Grace 1906
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Abacus Facing the Congo
Recent years have seen a spate of Congo books. Ronan Bennett, Barbara Kingsolver and John Edric have written acclaimed Congo novels, and Adam Hochschild's history, <I>King Leopold's Ghost</I>, documents the atrocities committed during rubber fever, when 8,000,000 died in the Belgian Congo and up to 14,000,000 died in French Equatorial Africa. In the travel genre, we have had Redmond O'Hanlon's great Congo Journey and Michaela Wrong's <I>In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz</I>. The combination of historical tragedy and contemporary anarchy makes this rich hunting ground for writers, but also provokes serious ethical questions about writing commercial books on a destroyed country--questions which only the nature of the books themselves can answer.<p><I>Facin g the Congo</I> is the latest such book. In it, Jeffrey Tayler recounts his attempt to canoe the navigable length of sub-Saharan Africa's most symbolic river. Equipped with help from one of Mobutu's henchmen and an ailing guide, Tayler finds things far from plain sailing. Negotiating corrupt officialdom, murderous peoples on the riverbanks, widespread suspicion and the dangers of the river itself, he ultimately finds his plans too demanding to be fully realised.<p>Tayler's prose is often evocative and his story is a compelling one. But he tends to load his descriptions with adjectives, which can over-dramatise situations. Of course this is a dramatic adventure, and Tayler tells it well, but at the end you can't help feeling that too little attention is paid to the root causes of both his troubles and the current situation in the Congo--rubber fever, greed and a callous European superiority complex. --<I>Toby Green</I>
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Stemmer House Publishers Inc.,U.S. African Designs of the Congo, Nigeria, The Cameroons and the Guinea Coast
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Portrait The Last Expedition: Stanley's Fatal Journey Through the Congo
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Fourth Estate In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in the Congo
Towards the end of Michela Wrong's highly readable debut, she quotes a military analyst wryly observing that so many mercenaries live to write their memoirs. The same could be said of foreign correspondents. Wrong separates herself from the hack pack by hitting the ground running, to apply a military metaphor, with her absorbing history of the country currently known as the Democratic Republic of Congo. Colonised by King Leopold II of Belgium (the only European monarch to personally own an African country), durable foundations for kleptocratic rule paved the way for Mobutu's authentic Zaire, the Leopard following Leopold. Clad in his trademark leopardskin toque and Buddy Holly sunglasses (purest African dictator kitsch, thus the ironically tacky cover), Wrong uncovers all the qualities of an autocrat: formidable memory, demagogic charisma, chameleon-like pragmatism, and a disastrous disdain for economics. In one memorable incident, Mobutu agreed a price for a neo-classical French villa, before casually enquiring whether the currency was US dollars or Belgian francs--the 39-fold difference being of no consequence. Tales of hidden Mobutu fortunes are tantalising, but hide a more prosaic truth: the most significant legacy taken up by his rotund ouster, Laurent Kabila, is Mobutuism, exemplified by a strong security force, divide and rule, and a strangulated economy. <p>Perhaps more modest of intent than Adam Hochschild's <I>King Leopold's Ghost</I>,Wrong's account excels at scrutinising a nation as abundant as the mineral and ore deposits beneath its troubled soil. Gently drawing out testimonies from a former Belgian administrator, a former CIA man, ex-pats, Mobutu'sex-son-in-law, the disabled peddlers of Kinshasa, and the immaculately costumed sapeurs with their Lingala music, her sympathetic manner belies a keen intelligence and sensitivity to environment, whether it's Mama Yemo hospital, with guards to protect against non-paying patients escaping, or a terrifying White Elephant of a nuclear reactor. In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz teases out the nuances of a complicated, haunted country in a wonderfully clear, uncluttered manner, while remaining sympathetic to its entrancing, troubled rhythms. --<I>David Vincent</I>
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University Press of the Pacific The Crime of the Congo
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Pirogue Press One Hundred Years of Darkness: A Photographic Journey into the Heart of Congo
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Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc,US The Democratic Republic of Congo: Economic Dimensions of War and Peace (International Peace Academy Occasional Paper)
Pages: 175, Paperback, Lynne Rienner Publishers Inc,US
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Zed Books Ltd Reinventing Order in the Congo: How People Respond to State Failure in the Kinshasa
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Egmont Books Ltd Tintin in the Congo
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Facing the Congo
In search of some direction, or at least a new challenge, Jeffrey Tayler gave up his day job and went exploring. Having always been fascinated by Africa and the Victorian age of exploration, he travelled to Africa, found a boat to take him to the heart of the Congo jungle, and paddled his way back. author: Tayler, Jeffrey; publisher: Abacus
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de.MO Forgotten War: Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Dover Publications Inc. The Congo and Other Poems (Thrift Editions)
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University Press of the Pacific Dragon Rouge: The Rescue of Hostages in the Congo
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C. Hurst & Co From Genocide to Continental War: The Congo Conflict and the Crisis of Contemporary Africa
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Nordic Africa Institute From Zaire to the Democratic Republic of Congo (Current African issues)
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Greenwood Press History of Congo, The
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Little, Brown Facing the Congo
Recent years have seen a spate of Congo books. Ronan Bennett, Barbara Kingsolver and John Edric have written acclaimed Congo novels, and Adam Hochschild's history, <I>King Leopold's Ghost</I>, documents the atrocities committed during rubber fever, when 8,000,000 died in the Belgian Congo and up to 14,000,000 died in French Equatorial Africa. In the travel genre, we have had Redmond O'Hanlon's great Congo Journey and Michaela Wrong's <I>In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz</I>. The combination of historical tragedy and contemporary anarchy makes this rich hunting ground for writers, but also provokes serious ethical questions about writing commercial books on a destroyed country--questions which only the nature of the books themselves can answer.<p><I>Facin g the Congo</I> is the latest such book. In it, Jeffrey Tayler recounts his attempt to canoe the navigable length of sub-Saharan Africa's most symbolic river. Equipped with help from one of Mobutu's henchmen and an ailing guide, Tayler finds things far from plain sailing. Negotiating corrupt officialdom, murderous peoples on the riverbanks, widespread suspicion and the dangers of the river itself, he ultimately finds his plans too demanding to be fully realised.<p>Tayler's prose is often evocative and his story is a compelling one. But he tends to load his descriptions with adjectives, which can over-dramatise situations. Of course this is a dramatic adventure, and Tayler tells it well, but at the end you can't help feeling that too little attention is paid to the root causes of both his troubles and the current situation in the Congo--rubber fever, greed and a callous European superiority complex. --<I>Toby Green</I>
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W W Norton & Co Ltd The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo
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University of California Press Language and Colonial Power: Appropriation of Swahili in the Former Belgian Congo, 1880-1938
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Vintage Books No Mercy: A Journey into the Heart of the Congo
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RoutledgeCurzon European Atrocity, African Catastrophe: Leopold II, the Congo Free State and Its Aftermath
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Edwin Mellen Press Ltd Explaining the Failure of Democracy in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Autocracy and Dissent in an Ambivalent World (African Studies S.)
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Duke University Press A Colonial Lexicon of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo (Body, Commodity, Text S.)
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RAND The UN's Role in Nation-building: From the Congo to Iraq
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Last Gasp,U.S. The Adventures of Tintin in the Congo
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Pathfinder From Escambray to the Congo: In the Whirlwind of the Cuban Revolution Interview with Victor Dreke
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Ediciones Universal Reglas De Congo : Mayombe Palo Monte (Coleccion Del Chichereku En El Exilio)
Pages: 236, Paperback, Ediciones Universal
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Africa Book Centre Ltd Congo Colossus: Life and Legacy of Franco and OK Jazz
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Buku P. Congo Colossus: Life and Legacy of Franco and OK Jazz
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Palgrave Macmillan Imagining the Congo
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Kessinger Publishing Co Two Trips To Gorilla Land And The Cataracts Of The Congo Volume 1
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Human Rights Watch The War Within the War: Sexual Violence Against Women and Girls in Eastern Congo
Pages: 114, Paperback, Human Rights Watch
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Berghahn Books Recalling the Belgian Congo: Conversations and Introspection (New Directions in Anthropology S.)
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Mason Crest Publishers Democratic Republic of the Congo (Africa: Continent in the Balance S.)
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Africa Research & Publications War and Peace in ZaireCongo: Analyzing and Evaluating Intervention, 1996-1997
Pages: 372, Paperback, Africa Research & Publications
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Janus Publishing Company Congo '63
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Granta Books The King Incorporated: Leopold the Second and the Congo
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University College Dublin Press The Eyes of Another Race: Roger Casement's Congo Report and 1903 Diary
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University College Dublin Press The Eyes of Another Race: Roger Casement's Congo Report and 1903 Diary
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Matthew Hughes Central African Federation, Katanga and the Congo Crisis, 1958-65, The
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Editions de Minuit,France Tintin Au Congo (Les Aventures De Tintin)
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5 Continents Editions Images of Congo
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The Nordic Africa Institute War and Peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Current African Issues)
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Algora Publishing,US The Tragic Congo: From Decolonization to Dictatorship (HC)
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