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1	Poisonwood Bible more books like this by Barbara Kingsolver add to wishlist In 1959, a missionary named Nathan Price transports his wife and four daughters to a remote village in the Belgian Congo to convert the natives. The family is met with hostility from the locals, particularly a vengeful witch doctor. They also face bands of desperate rebels, dangerous wildlife, and the inevitable petty inconveniences a hyper ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.39! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Heart of Darkness more books like this by Joseph Conrad add to wishlist Conrad's only spy novel, THE SECRET AGENT is set in the filthy and depraved city of London of the 1880s. Adolf Verloc, a bumbling police informer and the undercover agent for an unnamed European embassy, is recruited to bomb the Greenwich Observatory. Horrified and afraid, he fools his wife (who married him only so he would support her) into ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	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 $9.00! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Special Ops more books like this by W E B Griffin add to wishlist An elite U.S. special forces team goes to the Congo to prevent a Che Guevara-backed Communist revolution. Griffin's novel is based on Guevara's actual attempt to infiltrate Africa. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	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 $3.58! new only from $7.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Congo more books like this by Michael Crichton add to wishlist An anthropological expedition disappears in the middle of the Congo, leaving behind a video tape that shows dark figures bearing down on them before fading to nothingness. A member of the home team travels to Africa to investigate, accompanied by a group of scientists who have trained a gorilla named Amy to communicate with humans. "Congo" was the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	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 $4.51! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	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 $2.22! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	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 $2.80! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	The Kongolese Saint Anthony: Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita and the Antonian Movement, 1684-1706 more books like this by John Kelly Thornton add to wishlist Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita was a young Kongolese woman who in 1704 claimed to be possessed by St. Anthony, argued that Jesus was a Kongolese, criticized Italian Capuchin missionaries for not supporting black saints, and attempted to stop the devastating cycle of civil wars between contenders for the Kongolese throne. She was burned at the stake in ... see all copies from $9.99! new only from $20.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11 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 $29.95! new only from $119.94! \| first editions
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 $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	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 $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14 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 $9.53! new only from $13.00! \| first editions \| SVS
15 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 $12.00! new only from $41.52! \| first editions \| SVS
16 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 $1.99! \| first editions
17 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 $12.72! new only from $12.72! \| first editions
18 view cover	The Fight more books like this by Norman Mailer add to wishlist Mailer writes with eloquence, expertise, and insight about the 1975 world heavyweight championship bout in Zaire between Muhammad Ali, who was defending his title, and the up-and-coming fighter George Foreman. see all copies from $2.78! new only from $7.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Heart of Darkness and Selections from the Congo Diary more books like this by Joseph Conrad, Low, Caryl Phillips (Introduction by) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.63! \| SVS
20	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 $84.43! \| first editions
21 view cover	The Mbuti Pygmies: Change and Adaptation more books like this by Colin M Turnbull add to wishlist A study of the Mbuti pygmy hunter/gatherers of Zaire, with historical background on the Huri Forest, suggested correlatives between different forms of social organization and the environment, and details of the changes brought about by the "Zimba revolution" and independence. see all copies from $7.12! new only from $39.90! \| SVS
22 view cover	C.T. Studd more books like this by Norman Percy Grubb add to wishlist see all copies from $3.96! new only from $11.69! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Assassination of Lumumba more books like this by Ludo De Witte, Ann & Renee Wright (Translator), Renee Wright (Translator) add to wishlist Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Republic of the Congo and a pioneer of African unity, was at the centre of the country's popular defiance towards the relentless exploitation of its Belgian coloniser. Within months of independence being won he Patrice Lumumba was arrested, tortured and executed. "The Murder of Lumumba" reveals the ... see all copies from $3.99! new only from $8.90! \| first editions \| SVS
24 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 $2.09! new only from $9.42!
25 view cover	He Gave Us a Valley more books like this by Helen Roseveare add to wishlist After twelve years of missionary work in the northeast province of what was the Belgian Congo, building up a simple medical service, civil war erupted with horrific effects. During the war Helen was brutally beaten and raped and left with no choice but to return to Britain (this story is told in Give me this Mountain). She quickly returned to the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.25! \| first editions \| SVS

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