An edition of Congo (1980)

Congo

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An edition of Congo (1980)

Congo

1st Ballantine Books ed.

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  • ★★★ 3.4 (37 ratings) ·
  • 119 Want to read
  • 5 Currently reading
  • 64 Have read

Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes.

Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies — all motionless except for one moving image — a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur.

In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with an extraordinary vocabulary of 620 “signs,” the most ever learned by a primate, and she likes to fingerpaint. But recently, her behavior has been erratic and her drawings match, with stunning accuracy, the brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642 . . . a drawing of an ancient lost city. A new expedition — along with Amy — is sent into the Congo where they enter a secret world, and the only way out may be through a horrifying death …
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Ballantine Books
Language
English
Pages
316

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Subjects

kakundakari, type IIb, diamonds, thrillers, science fiction, adventure fiction, adventure stories, Fiction, Archaeology, Gorilla, Ancient Civilization, American Science fiction, Horror stories, Africa, fiction, Fiction, thrillers, Fiction, thrillers, general, Large type books, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Adventure, Mystery Thriller

People

Karen Ross, Peter Elliot, Amy, Charles Munro

Places

Congo (Democratic Republic), Congo (Brazzaville), Zinj, Congo, San Francisco, Houston, Tangier, Nairobi, Virunga region, Japan, Germany, Holland

Times

1642, 1979

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剛果驚魂: Congo
1995, Ching-Jou Publishing Company
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Congo
1995, Ballantine Books
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Congo
1994-03, Editions Mazarine
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Congo
1994?, Ballantine Books
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Congo
1993-01, Ballantine Books
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Congo
1993 01, Ballantine Books
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Congo
1993, Arrow, ARROW BOOKS LTD
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Congo
1982-06, Mazarine
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Congo
1980, Alfred A. Knopf
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Congo
1980, Knopf
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-316)
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New York, USA
Genre
Fiction.
Copyright Date
1980

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CPB Box no. 1745 vol. 3

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Format
Mass Market Paperback
Pagination
xiv, 316 p. ;
Number of pages
316

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3547130M
ISBN 10
0345378490
ISBN 13
9780345378491
LCCN
2001553377
OCLC/WorldCat
27954559, 1004442197
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11616
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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. Crichton calls Congo a lost world novel in the tradition founded by Henry Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, featuring the mines of that work's title.


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