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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.
Congo, a 1980 novel by Michael Crichton Congo, a 1995 film based on the novel; Congo (chess variant), using a 7×7 gameboard; Congo, a 1995 pinball machine; Congo, a 2001 nature documentary; Congo – A Political Tragedy, a 2018 documentary film; Congo: The Epic History of a People, a 2010 book by David van Reybrouck
Crichton did the screenplay for Congo after he wrote and directed Looker (1981). [48] [47] Looker was a financial disappointment. Crichton came close to directing a film of Congo with Sean Connery, but the film did not happen. [49] Eventually, a film version was made in 1995 by Frank Marshall. In 1984, Telarium released a graphic adventure ...
The novel begins: "On a winter's day, while a blizzard raged through the streets of Toronto, Lilah Kemp inadvertently set Kurtz free from page 92 of Heart of Darkness." [ 78 ] [ 79 ] Ann Patchett 's 2011 novel State of Wonder reimagines the story with the central figures as female scientists in contemporary Brazil.
Congorilla, originally a human character known as Congo Bill, is a superhero appearing in comic books published by DC Comics and Vertigo Comics. Originally co-created by writer Whitney Ellsworth and artist George Papp , he was later transformed into Congorilla by Robert Bernstein and Howard Sherman.
The film, which was directed by Jack Cardiff, is based on Wilbur Smith's 1965 novel, The Dark of the Sun. The story about a band of mercenaries sent on a dangerous mission during the Congo Crisis was adapted into a screenplay by Ranald MacDougall. Critics condemned the film on its original release for its graphic scenes of violence and torture. [2]
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 ...