No mercy

a journey to the heart of the Congo

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No mercy

a journey to the heart of the Congo

1st Vintage Departures ed.
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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 Samale, a beast whose three-clawed hands rip you across the back) make this a saga of much fear and trembling.

Omni-present 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.

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Publisher
Vintage Books
Language
English
Pages
461

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Cover of: No Mercy
No Mercy: A Journey Into the Heart of the Congo
June 30, 1998, Vintage
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Cover of: No mercy
No mercy: a journey to the heart of the Congo
1998, Vintage Books
in English - 1st Vintage Departures ed.
Cover of: No Mercy
No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo
May 6, 1997, Knopf, Alfred A. Knopf
Hardcover in English - 1st American ed edition
Cover of: No mercy
No mercy: a journey to the heart of the Congo
1997, Alfred A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House, Inc.
in English - 1st American ed.

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Edition Notes

Originally published in Great Britain by H. Hamilton in 1996 in slightly different form as: Congo Journey.

"Published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred A Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1997"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [455-462]).

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
916.724
Library of Congress
DT546.29.L54 O34 1997, DT546.29.L54

The Physical Object

Pagination
461, [1] p. :
Number of pages
461

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24381398M
ISBN 10
0679737324
ISBN 13
9780679737322
LCCN
96036677
OCLC/WorldCat
39548404

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