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1	Poisonwood Bible more books like this by Barbara Kingsolver add to wishlist This is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Heart of Darkness more books like this by Joseph Conrad add to wishlist On a boat near the estuary of the Thames, Marlow tells his travelling companions of his reconnaissance expedition for a Belgian trading company to its most remote outpost in central Africa, which brought him on the trail of the elusive Kurtz, a brilliant idealist gone rogue. His account relates not only the perils he encounters on his quest, but ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	King Leopolds' Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa more books like this by Adam Hochschild add to wishlist First published in 1999, Hochschild provides a riveting account of the Congo massacres, peopled by callous monarchs, corrupt adventurers and a handful of genuine heroes. This exemplary piece of history writing gives the facts that caused those atrocities. see all copies from $2.54! new only from $6.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Forest People more books like this by Collin Turnbull, Colin M Turnbull add to wishlist - Colin M. Turnbull's best-selling, classic work - describes the author's experiences while living with the BaMbuti Pygmies, not as a clinical observer, but as their friend learning their customs and sharing their daily life. Turnbill conveys the lives and feelings of the BaMbuti whose existence centers on their intense love for their forest world ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.16! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Congo more books like this by Michael Crichton add to wishlist Three adventurers penetrate deep into the heart of Africa in a desperate bid to find the fabulous diamonds of the lost city of Zinj. They encounter Kigani cannibals, flaming volcanoes - and Amy, a cuddly gorilla, fluent in sign language. By the author of "The Andromeda Strain" and "Jurassic Park". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Special Ops more books like this by W E B Griffin add to wishlist W E B Griffin published his last Brotherhood of War series novel, The Aviators, in 1988. Yet there was always at least one more story he wanted to tell - and here it is. In November 1964, Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara went to the Congo with two hundred men, intent on making it his first step in taking over Africa and South America. He failed, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The New Breed: Brotherhood of War 07 more books like this by W E B Griffin add to wishlist From the jungles of Vietnam to the far-flung battlefields of the African Congo, they faced the turmoil of a new era. But the courage and skill of these young fighting men were an American tradition, and they rose to the challenge of military valor. They were America's new breed. Continuing the bestselling Brotherhood of War saga. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	A burnt-out case more books like this by Graham Greene add to wishlist Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art of pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation. However, as Querry loses himself in work for ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Fight more books like this by Norman Mailer add to wishlist Norman Mailer's, "The Fight" focuses on the 1975 World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa, Zaire. Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring. Foreman's genius employed silence, serenity and cunning. He had never been defeated. His hands were his instrument, and 'he kept them in his pockets the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $8.52! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo more books like this by Michela Wrong add to wishlist The Africa correspondent for the Financial Times chronicles the history of Congo (formerly Zaire) in the second half of the 20th century and how it suffered under the rule of Mobutu Sese Seko, who reportedly stole billions of that country's assets and left its citizens impoverished. Mobutu's successor, Laurent Kabila, inherited the legacy of greed ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart more books like this by Tim Butcher add to wishlist Published to rave reviews in the United Kingdom and named a Richard & Judy Book Club selection--the only work of nonfiction on the 2008 list--"Blood River" is the harrowing and audacious story of Tim Butcher's journey in the Congo and his retracing of renowned explorer H. M. Stanley's famous 1874 expedition in which he mapped the Congo River. When ... see all copies from $5.99! new only from $10.75! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Last Twilight: A Dirk & Steele Romance more books like this by Marjorie M Liu add to wishlist In this seventh thrilling release in Marjorie M. Lius "New York Times" bestselling paranormal series, a young doctor finds herself caught up in a bioweapons plot, and only Amiri, a shape-shifting member of Dirk & Steele, can protect her--and win her heart.Leisure Books see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.43! \| first editions \| SVS
13	New Breed more books like this by W E B Griffin add to wishlist The seventh volume of eight in the "Brotherhood of War" series, continuing the interwoven stories of four men whose friendship has been forged in battle. In this novel, a new breed of soldier is put to the test in the Congo, a country in the throes of bloody rebellion. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Blood River more books like this by Tim Butcher add to wishlist Ever since Stanley first charted its mighty river in the 1870s, the Congo has epitomised the dark and turbulent history of a failed continent - from colonial cruelty under the Belgians to the kleptocratic chaos of Mobutu Sese Seko and the current post-apocalyptic riot of robber-baron politicians. However, its troubles only served to increase the ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $11.11!
15 view cover	The river : a journey to the source of HIV and AIDS more books like this by Edward Hooper add to wishlist Based on nine years of full-time research by science journalist, Edward Hopper, this text presents an investigation into the origins of AIDS. see all copies from $37.96! new only from $123.96! \| first editions
16 view cover	King Leopold's ghost. more books like this by Adam Hochschild add to wishlist In the late 1890s Edmund Morel, a shipping company official working in Antwerp, noticed something suspicious. When his company's ships docked from the Congo, they were filled with valuable cargoes of rubber and ivory. Yet when they sailed back to Africa they carried nothing in exchange. Nothing, that is, except soldiers, military supplies and ... see all copies from $8.50! new only from $11.80! \| first editions
17 view cover	Black Livingstone: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo more books like this by Pagan Kennedy add to wishlist n 1890 a twenty-four-year-old African American missionary named William Henry Sheppard departed for what was then the Belgian Congo, where for more than twenty years he ran a mission staffed by black Americans. Returning to America periodically, he was billed as the "Black Livingstone" and traveled the country telling tales of his adventures to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
18	Queen of Shaba: The Story of an African Leopard more books like this by Joy Adamson add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $59.95! \| first editions
19 view cover	Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande more books like this by E E Evans-Pritchard, Eva Gillies (Editor) add to wishlist This acknowledged masterpiece has been abridged to make it more accessible to students. In her introduction, Eva Gillies presents the case for the relevance of the book to modern anthropologists. see all copies from $9.98! new only from $39.69! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The Catastrophist more books like this by Ronan Bennett add to wishlist Gillespie, an Irishman, goes to the Congo in 1959 in pursuit of his beautiful lover Ines, a passionate Italian journalist. Unlike her, Gillespie has no interest in the deepening independence crisis, nor in the charismatic leader, Patrice Lumumba. He has other business: this is his last chance to make love work for him. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	C.T. Studd more books like this by Norman Percy Grubb add to wishlist see all copies from $4.98! new only from $9.52! \| SVS
22 view cover	Forest People more books like this by Colin M Turnbull add to wishlist Colin Turnbull lived among the pygmies of the Ituri Forest in the Congo as their friend for three years. He writes about their hunting parties, their nomadic camps, their quarrels and love affairs, their music and their ceremonies. It is an account of an earthly paradise and of a legendary and delightful people. The author also wrote "The Mountain ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.00! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Chief of Station, Congo: A Memoir of 1960-67 more books like this by Larry Devlin add to wishlist This is the autobiography of one of the Cold War's hottest warriors: the CIA Station Chief in the Congo during the tumultuous years of independence. Larry Devlin arrived as the new chief of station for the CIA in the Congo five days after the country had declared its independence, the army had mutinied and governmental authority had collapsed. As ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.09! \| first editions
24 view cover	Year of the Gorilla more books like this by Mr. George B Schaller add to wishlist This seminal work chronicles George B. Schaller's two years of travel and observation of gorillas in East and Central Africa in the late 1950s, high in the Virunga volcanoes on the Zaire-Rwanda-Uganda border. There, he learned that these majestic animals, far from being the aggressive apes of film and fiction, form close-knit societies of caring ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $23.80! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Curve of the World more books like this by Marcus Stevens add to wishlist An American businessman disappears into the jungle when his plane is forced down in the Congo. At home, his wife and his little blind son become increasingly disturbed by the situation. As things worsen, both husband and wife think obsessively about their relationship and its direction, as he tries to survive in an alien environment and she tries ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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