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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 .
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.
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Congo is a 1995 American science fiction action-adventure film based on the 1980 novel by Michael Crichton. It was directed by Frank Marshall and stars Laura Linney , Dylan Walsh , Ernie Hudson , Grant Heslov , Joe Don Baker and Tim Curry .
The King Incorporated was first published in 1963 (three years after the Congo's independence from Belgium) and has been reprinted in eight editions. The 1999 edition (published by Granta ) modified the book's title to The King Incorporated: Leopold the Second and the Congo, omitting the reference to trusts .
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa is a non-fiction book by American author Jason Stearns, published by PublicAffairs in 2011. It is about the First and Second Congo Wars , focusing especially on the role the Rwandan government played in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 's internal ...
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 ...
Congo Journey (1996) is an autobiographical novel by British author Redmond O'Hanlon, following his trip across Congo-Brazzaville (now Republic of the Congo), taking a friend to Lake Tele in search of Mokèlé-mbèmbé, a legendary Congo dinosaur. [1] The novel was republished in 1997 for United States readers as No Mercy: A Journey to the ...