books about: congo     books:     Congo      Tintin in the Congo Herge EGMONT CHILDREN'S, 2005 For completists only, not the best of the Tinton books. Until the recent b&w edition, I hadn't read Tintin in the Congo since reading the French edition as a child (5 or 6) in Canada. I was hoping that the color edition would be nicer than the b&w, as I remembered this as a fun and amusing story. Not much fun, not much ...             The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square Ned Sublette Lawrence Hill Books, 2008 Wow! Sublette has done an amazing job pulling together political, cultural and social elements into a very compelling narrative. And super-informative too. Extremely impressive historical writing (and this is coming from a history major). I LOVE how international and ...             The Forest People Colin Turnbull Touchstone, 1987 One of the best anthropology books I've ever read. This is one of my favorite books, and is most definitely one of the best anthropology books I've ever had the pleasure to read. It seems like Turnbull actually cared about the people he was living with, and tried to understand things from their perspective, rather than ...             Michael Crichton: A New Collection of Three Complete Novels: Congo, Sphere, Eaters of the Dead Michael Crichton Wings, 1994 All we need now is all his works in one I loved Sphere and Congo. I read them when 3 years ago I was overseas in Africa when I was about 11, and was glad a picked them up. I had read previous books, such as Jurassic Park and The Lost World, as well as The Adromedia Strain. In all truth, Sphere scared me ...             Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo Kate Jackson Harvard University Press, 2008 A great read written by a woman with true grit Kate Jackson is a great writer who has written a thoroughly marvelous true-life tale of adventure. I thoroughly admire her amazing journey into the African wetlands to catch, identify, and acquire tissue from snakes, many of them deadly. Make no mistake, this is a ...             Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart Tim Butcher Grove Press, 2008 As good as the best suspense novel -- but it's non-fiction... "In August 2004 I booked a flight from Johannesburg to the Congo, wrote my first will and kissed Jane goodbye." On that note, Daily Telegraph reporter Tim Butcher set off on what can only be described as one of the most quixotic expeditions imaginable. In the early ...             King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa Adam Hochschild Mariner Books, 1999 The facts of Western Civilization There are few stories that shock you with horror and this is one of the stories that make you wonder about greed and inhumanity of men. The grounds one of Africa's largest region was granted continue to this day(we all remember democracy for Iraq)was to end the ...             Africa's World War: Congo, the Rwandan Genocide, and the Making of a Continental Catastrophe Gerard Prunier Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 The Rwandan genocide sparked a horrific bloodbath that swept across sub-Saharan Africa, ultimately leading to the deaths of some four million people. In this extraordinary history of the recent wars in Central Africa, Gerard Prunier offers a gripping account of how one grisly episode laid the groundwork for a sweeping and disastrous upheaval. ...             Chief of Station, Congo: Fighting the Cold War in a Hot Zone Larry Devlin PublicAffairs, 2007 The Way It Was -- Honest & Unvarnished This is a great book of how one man can could make a difference in the Cold War. Author Devlin chose to concentrate on his time as the CIA Station Chief in the Congo (now Zaire) in the early and mid 1960s but one suspects that his earlier time as a case officer (in an ...             Congo Michael Crichton Avon, 2003 So much better than the Movie! I read this book a couple of years before the movie came out, and I have got to say that this novel is head and shoulders above the movie. I loved it! I know that many people have hated the movie, and this novel was incredible! I wish people would give more credit ...             The Congo Wars: Conflict, Myth and Reality Thomas Turner Zed Books, 2007 Straight and true The Congo crises of the late 20th Century contributed to the death of perhaps four million people, and yet the literature on these conflicts and their causes is sparse and generally undistinguished. Turner's book reflects a real mastery of Central African history and ...             In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo Michela Wrong Harper Perennial, 2002 The Second Half Of A Bloody Century Anyone who wants to understand the Congo should read two books, Michela Wrong's In The Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz and King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild. I also heartily recommend both books to anyone studying ...             Heart of Darkness and The Congo Diary (Penguin Classics) Joseph Conrad Penguin Classics, 2007 "Mistah Kurtz--he dead." An influential work on five 20th century seminal works I read this book for a graduate Humanities course. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, written in 1899 is a seminal work about the ills of colonialism, as well as a postmodern look at the subject of mankind. Conrad's book had a crucial influence on five important ...             The Poisonwood Bible (Oprah's Book Club) Barbara Kingsolver Harper Perennial, 1999 My Introduction to Writing This is a book folks have probably already described as one of those you'll compare all that you've read before and since. I will describe it as my introduction to literature, to writing. Perhaps I'm late to the party, what's new? The book was an Oprah book, so lots of ...             Heart of Darkness & Selections from The Congo Diary Joseph Conrad Modern Library, 1999 "Mistah Kurtz--he dead." An influential work on five 20th century seminal works I read this book for a graduate Humanities course. Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, written in 1899 is a seminal work about the ills of colonialism, as well as a postmodern look at the subject of mankind. 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