Author: Marguerite RobyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo (Brazzaville)
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
My Adventures in the Congo
Author: Marguerite RobyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congo (Brazzaville)
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Congo
Author: Michael CrichtonPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307816508
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park and Timeline comes a gripping thriller about the shocking demise of eight American geologists in the darkest region of the Congo. “Thrilling.” —The New York Times Book Review Deep in the African rainforest, near the ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, a field expedition is brutally killed. At the Houston-based Earth Resources Technology Services, Inc., a horrified supervisor watches a gruesome video transmission of that ill-fated group and sees a haunting, grainy, man-like blur moving amongst the bodies. In San Francisco, an extraordinary gorilla named Amy, who has a 620-sign vocabulary, may hold the secret to that fierce carnage. Immediately, a new expedition is sent to the Congo with Amy in tow, descending into a secret, forbidden world where the only escape may be through the grisliest death.
Tintin in the Congo
Author: HergéPublisher: Egmont Books (UK)
ISBN: 9781405220989
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Join the world’s most famous travelling reporter in two exciting adventures as he heads for the Congo. The young reporter Tintin and his faithful dog Snowy set off on assignment to Africa. But a sinister stowaway follows their every move and seems set on ensuring they come to a sticky end. Tintin and Snowy encounter witch doctors, hostile tribesmen, crocodiles, boa constrictors and numerous other wild animals before solving the mystery and getting their story. Join the most iconic character in comics as he embarks on an extraordinary adventure spanning historical and political events, and thrilling mysteries. Still selling over 100,000 copies every year in the UK and having been adapted for the silver screen by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson in 2011. The Adventures of Tintin continue to charm more than 80 years after they first found their way into publication. Since then an estimated 230 million copies have been sold, proving that comic books have the same power to entertain children and adults in the 21st century as they did in the early 20th.
Emerald Labyrinth
Author: Eli GreenbaumPublisher: Brandeis University Press
ISBN: 1512600970
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The race to explore the Congo's dwindling biodiversity and unlock its ancient secrets
Drums Along the Congo
Author: Rory NugentPublisher: Open Road Distribution
ISBN: 9781504036900
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Originally published in 1993 by Houghton Mifflin.
Pandora in the Congo
Author: Albert Sánchez PiñolPublisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1847671241
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
A literary take on the Boy's Own Adventure model - this is Indiana Jones meets Life of Pi
The Boy Travellers on the Congo; Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey with Henry M. Stanley "Through the Dark Continent"
Author: Thomas Wallace KnoxPublisher: Alpha Edition
ISBN: 9789355896407
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable.
Calculus in the Congo: My Adventures While Teaching and Traveling on the African Continent Book 2
Author: JashananandaPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365283534
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
I type "International Teaching Jobs" on the Google search line and find myself looking at a long list of teaching jobs all over the world. "Here's a job in the Congo," I tell my wife, Chantal. "Africa!!!?" "Yea... really. They want a calculus teacher! I can do that!" "Okay," Chantal says tentatively. "If you want." I hit the submit button and my resume is off across the world. What follows are four action-packed years of living, working and traveling in sub-saharan Africa. This book chronicles the second, third and fourth years of these adventures, including the day-to-day life of a teacher at The American School of Kinshasa from 2007-2009 who deals with a marginal infrastructure while facing the everyday challenges of living in a war-torn third-world country, and has some great adventures in South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda and Zanzibar. This is the sequel to the book, Calculus in the Congo, Book 1.
Tintin and the Lake of Sharks
Author: HergéPublisher: Mammoth
ISBN: 9781405208222
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
The world’s most famous travelling reporter searches for the truth behind the theft of some priceless works of art. But what does the King Shark have to do with it all? Tintin and his friends are holidaying in Syldavia with Professor Calculus, who has invented an amazing new duplicating machine. But a series of strange occurrences makes Tintin suspicious. Who is the mysterious “King Shark”, and what does he want with Calculus’ machine? Is there a connection with the recent theft of famous works of art from the world’s leading museums? Tintin is determined to find out! Join the most iconic character in comics as he embarks on an extraordinary adventure spanning historical and political events, and thrilling mysteries. Still selling over 100,000 copies every year in the UK and having been adapted for the silver screen by Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson in 2011. The Adventures of Tintin continue to charm more than 80 years after they first found their way into publication. Since then an estimated 230 million copies have been sold, proving that comic books have the same power to entertain children and adults in the 21st century as they did in the early 20th.
Facing the Congo
Author: Jeffrey TaylerPublisher: Abacus (UK)
ISBN: 9780349114507
Category : Congo (Democratic Republic)
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This book transports readers into the jungles and crocodile-infested waters of sub-Saharan Africa. The author travels a river barge teeming with merchants, mothers, prostitutes, fishermen, and spiritual followers, then launches his quest to confront the Congo River by descending its longest navigational stretch.