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Congo Journey

2008 Congo (Brazzaville)
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Release : 2008
Genre : Congo (Brazzaville)
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Book Rating : 271/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Congo Journey by : Redmond O'Hanlon

Download or read book Congo Journey written by Redmond O'Hanlon. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redmond O'Hanlon's Congo Journey is a hilarious and daring trip into the heart of darkness. Striking out for the Marxist-Leninist People's Republic of Congo, O'Hanlon takes an unsuspecting friend to hidden Lake Télé in search of Mohélé-mbembe, the rarely seen Congo dinosaur. But what they find is not quite what they went looking for, making Congo Journey a brilliant tale of a naturalist utterly out of his depth.

East Along the Equator

1987 Travel
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Release : 1987
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 621/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis East Along the Equator by : Helen Winternitz

Download or read book East Along the Equator written by Helen Winternitz. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant mix of political journalism and travel writing, Helen Winternitz and fellow journalist Timothy Phelps witness what few Westerners have: life in the ecologically rich but financially impoverished American-backed dictatorship of Zaire, the former Belgian Congo.

No Mercy

1998-06-30 Travel
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Release : 1998-06-30
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 322/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis No Mercy by : Redmond O'Hanlon

Download or read book No Mercy written by Redmond O'Hanlon. This book was released on 1998-06-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lit with humor, full of African birdsong and told with great narrative force, No Mercy is the magnum opus of "probably the finest writer of travel books in the English language," as Bill Bryson wrote in Outside, "and certainly the most daring." Redmond O'Hanlon has journeyed among headhunters in deepest Borneo with the poet James Fenton, and amid the most reticent, imperilled and violent tribe in the Amazon Basin with a night-club manager. This, however, is his boldest journey yet. Accompanied by Lary Shaffer--an American friend and animal behaviorist, a man of imperfect health and brave decency--he enters the unmapped swamp-forests of the People's Republic of the Congo, in search of a dinosaur rumored to have survived in a remote prehistoric lake. The flora and fauna of the Congo are unrivalled, and with matchless passion O'Hanlon describes scores of rare and fascinating animals: eagles and parrots, gorillas and chimpanzees, swamp antelope and forest elephants. But as he was repeatedly warned, the night belongs to Africa, and threats both natural (cobras, crocodiles, lethal insects) and supernatural (from all-powerful sorcerers to Samalé, a beast whose three-clawed hands rip you across the back) make this a saga of much fear and trembling. Omnipresent too are ecological depredations, political and tribal brutality, terrible illness and unnecessary suffering among the forest pygmies, and an appalling waste of human life throughout this little-explored region. An elegant, disturbing and deeply compassionate evocation of a vanishing world, extraordinary in its depth, scope and range of characters, No Mercy is destined to become a landmark work of travel, adventure and natural history. A quest for the meaning of magic and the purpose of religion, and a celebration of the comforts and mysteries of science, it is also--and above all--a powerful guide to the humanity that prevails even in the very heart of darkness.

Crossing the Congo

2016 Congo River
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Release : 2016
Genre : Congo River
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Book Rating : 859/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Crossing the Congo by : Mike Martin

Download or read book Crossing the Congo written by Mike Martin. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of three friends journeying across 2,500 miles of the toughest terrain on the planet in a very old Land Rover called 9Bob. Over two months in 2013, they completed the only north-south crossing of the Congo River Basin in decades, travelling from Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, to Juba, in South Sudan, a journey they had been told repeatedly was 'impossible'. On the way, they faced fierce challenges, ranging from jungle terrain, kleptocracy, fire ants, illegal mining and burrowing parasites, to factional disputes, destroyed bridges, non-existent roads and intense suspicion from local people. These difficulties, and others, found them building rafts and bridges to cross rivers, playing tribal politics, bargaining for Land Rover parts in scrapyards, and conducting makeshift surgery in the jungle--both on 9Bob and on one another. Conjuring all their combined ingenuity and resolve, they got through. But the Congo is raw, and the journey took its toll, exerting a psychological pressure on them that they hadn't expected. And although they all lost something in the Congo, this book is ultimately about the power of teamwork to overcome tremendous odds.

Stringer

2014-01-07 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2014-01-07
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 76X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Stringer by : Anjan Sundaram

Download or read book Stringer written by Anjan Sundaram. This book was released on 2014-01-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the powerful travel-writing tradition of Ryszard Kapuscinski and V.S. Naipaul, a haunting memoir of a dangerous and disorienting year of self-discovery in one of the world's unhappiest countries.

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