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Heart of Darkness & Selections from The Congo Diary
Author: Joseph Conrad
ISBN-10: 037575377X
ISBN-13: 9780375753770
Published: 1999-08-10
Publisher: Modern Library
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Book Description:
Introduction by Caryl PhillipsCommentary by H. L. Mencken, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Lionel Trilling, Chinua Achebe, and Philip GourevitchOriginally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century’s most enduring works of fiction. Written several years after Joseph Conrad’s grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel is a complex meditation on colonialism, evil, and the thin line between civilization and barbarity. This edition contains selections from Conrad’s Congo Diary of 1890—the first notes, in effect, for the novel, which was composed at the end of that decade. Virginia Woolf wrote of Conrad: “His books are full of moments of vision. They light up a whole character in a flash. . . . He could not write badly, one feels, to save his life.”
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Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo
Author: Kate Jackson
ISBN-10: 0674029747
ISBN-13: 9780674029743
Published: 2008-04-30
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Book Description:
In 2005 Kate Jackson ventured into the remote swamp forests of the northern Congo to collect reptiles and amphibians. Her camping equipment was rudimentary, her knowledge of Congolese customs even more so. She knew how to string a net and set a pitfall trap, but she never imagined the physical and cultural difficulties that awaited her. Culled from the mud-spattered pages of her journals, Mean and Lowly Things reads like a fast-paced adventure story. It is Jackson’s unvarnished account of her research on the front lines of the global biodiversity crisis—coping with interminable delays in obtaining permits, learning to outrun advancing army ants, subsisting on a diet of Spam and manioc, and ultimately falling in love with the strangely beautiful flooded forest. The reptile fauna of the Republic of Congo was all but undescribed, and Jackson’s mission was to carry out the most basic study of the amphibians and reptiles of the swamp forest: to create a simple list of the species that exist there—a crucial first step toward efforts to protect them. When the snakes evaded her carefully set traps, Jackson enlisted people from the villages to bring her specimens. She trained her guide to tag frogs and skinks and to fix them in formalin. As her expensive camera rusted and her Western soap melted, Jackson learned what it took to swim with the snakes—and that there’s a right way and a wrong way to get a baby cobra out of a bottle. (20080415)
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DRUMS ALONG THE CONGO CL
Author: Rory Nugent
ISBN-10: 0395587077
ISBN-13: 9780395587072
Published: 1993-06-28
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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An American explorer and cryptozoologist chronicles his adventures on the Congo searching for the elusive Mokele-Mbembe, a dinosaur-like creature reported to live in the river. By the author of The Search for the Pink-Headed Duck.
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The Ponds of Kalambayi
Author: Mike Tidwell
ISBN-10: 155821447X
ISBN-13: 9781558214477
Published: 1996-05-01
Publisher: Lyons Press
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A hilarious and wrenching memoir from a peace Corps volunteer in Zaire.
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Traveling to Tondo
Author: Verna Aardema
ISBN-10: 0679900810
ISBN-13: 9780679900818
Published: 1991-01-16
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
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Illus. in full color. "Bowane, the cat, has asked for the hand of a beautiful feline and is returning to his future wife's village with a basket of copper and trinkets. On the way, he invites one friend after another to accompany him. But delays stall the wedding party--for years--and when the entourage finally reaches Tondo, they are not welcome. This satisfying tale owes its success to a clean, straightforward telling and beautiful illustrations. Perfect for reading aloud, this is a traveling tale for all collections."--(starred) School Library Journal.
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The Last Expedition: Stanley's Mad Journey Through the Congo
Author: Daniel Liebowitz
ISBN-10: 0393059030
ISBN-13: 9780393059038
Published: 2005-07-25
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Henry Morton Stanley undertook the greatest African expedition of the nineteenth century to rescue Emin Pasha, last lieutenant of the martyred General Gordon and governor of the southern Sudan. Emin had been cut off by an Islamic jihad to the north and was at the mercy of brutal slave traders. Instead of ten months, the trip took three years and cost the lives of thousands of people, as Stanley's column hacked its way across the last great, unexplored territory in Africa. Stanley's secret agenda was territorial expansion on the model of Leopold's Congo or the British East India Company, and what is revealed so vividly in the diaries of those who accompanied him is the dark underside of both the man and the colonial impulse. The expedition took whatever it wanted from the Africans, and when Africans were killed defending their possessions, they didn't even rate an entry in Stanley's journal.
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East Along the Equator: A Journey up the Congo and into Zaire (Traveler / Atlantic Monthly Press)
Author: Helen Winternitz
ISBN-10: 0871131625
ISBN-13: 9780871131621
Published: 1987-01-01
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
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In this brilliant mix of political journalism and travel writing, Helen Winternitz and fellow journalist Timothy Phelps witness what few Westerners have: life in the ecologically rich but financially impoverished American-backed dictatorship of Zaire, the former Belgian Congo.
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Democratic Repuplic of Congo Map by Cartographia (Country Map S.)
Author: Cartographia
ISBN-10: 9633529751
ISBN-13: 9789633529751
Published: 2005-06-01
Publisher: Cartographia
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Book Description:
Folded road and travel map in color. Scale 1:3,300,000. Distinguishes 6 types of roads, ranging from motorways to dirt roads. Legend shows railways, international airports, airfields, ship routes, car ferries, passes, National Parks/game reserves, scenic spots, churches, monuments, beaches, lodge/camping sites, caves, mangroves, volcanos. Includes inset of Kinshasa. Legend in 4 languages, including English. Index on back of map.
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Africa Solo: A Journey Across the Sahara, Sahel and Congo
Author: Kevin Kertscher
ISBN-10: 1883642949
ISBN-13: 9781883642945
Published: 1998-04-25
Publisher: Steerforth Press
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Book Description:
Feeling the need to reorient his inner compass, filmmaker Kevin Kertscher set out on a personal journey across large expanses of the African continent.
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