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Congo Tales is a photo series book of Congolese from the Mbomo District acting out their mythologies in the Odzala Kokoua National Park. [1] It was published by Prestel Publishing (a division of Random House) in the United States on November 15, 2018, and in the UK on July 9, 2018 (ISBN 978-3-7913-5789-8).
Short title: The Crime of the Congo: Author: Arthur Conan Doyle: Software used: ocrmypdf 11.6.2 / Tesseract OCR-PDF 4.1.1: Conversion program: pikepdf 2.5.2
Congo is a 1980 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton, the fifth under his own name and the fifteenth overall. The novel centers on an expedition searching for diamonds and investigating the mysterious deaths of a previous expedition in the dense tropical rainforest of the Congo .
The book, also a general biography of the private life of Leopold, succeeded in increasing public awareness of these crimes in recent decades. [2] The book was refused by nine of the ten U.S. publishing houses to which an outline was submitted, but became an unexpected bestseller and won the prestigious Mark Lynton History Prize for
Congo: The Epic History of a People (original Dutch title: Congo.Een geschiedenis) is a 639 page non-fiction book by David Van Reybrouck, first published in 2010.It describes the history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from the prehistory until the present, with the main focus on the period from the Belgian colonisation until the book's release.
The book was intended as an exposé of the situation in the so-called Congo Free State (labelled a "rubber regime" by Conan Doyle), an area occupied and designated as the personal property of Leopold II of Belgium and where the serious human rights abuses were occurring. Indigenous people in the region were being brutally exploited and tortured ...
The Mission Song is a thriller/espionage novel by British writer John le Carré, published in 2006.Set against the background of the chaotic East Congo, the story involves the planning of a Western-backed coup in the province of Kivu, told from the worm's-eye view of the hapless interpreter.
The Lele of the Kasai (1963) was the second book by the influential British anthropologist Mary Douglas and the first under her married name. [1] In it she reported on her anthropological fieldwork among the Lele people on the western bank of the Kasai River in the Basongo area of what had at the time been south-western Belgian Congo.