Author: Herge
Publisher: Last Ga
Keywords: petit, vingtieme, reporter, congo, tintin, adventures
Number of Pages: 120
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0867199024
ISBN-13: 9780867199024
In Tintin in the Congo, one of his earliest adventures, our intrepid reporter hunts down both criminals and wild game. The story was written in 1930 and first appeared in book form in 1931, and some of the parts are so dated that for years the book was unavailable in English. This edition reprints on black-and-white newsprint the original 1931 version. In one scene, Tintin tells a group of African children "Today, I’m going to talk to you about your country: Belgium!" When the story was updated and colorized (but not translated into English) in 1946, this became a simple lesson in additi
Author: Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: war, congo, revolutionary, diaries, dream, african
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-10-07
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0802138349
ISBN-13: 9780802138347
Ernesto "Che" Guevara was one of the greatest exemplars of the revolutionary 1960s, a man whose heroic adventures were essential to the success of the Cuban Revolution and whose legend fired the imaginations of a whole generation. In 1965, amid worldwide conjecture, Guevara left Cuba, where he was a minister in Fidel Castro’s postrevolutionary government, and traveled incognito to the heart of Africa. People’s hero Patrice Lumumba had recently been assassinated, and Guevara was to put his theories of guerrilla warfare to use helping the oppressed people of the Congo throw off the y
Author: Ned Sublette
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Book
Keywords: silver, congo, square, spanish, orleans, made, new, world
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1556527306
ISBN-13: 9781556527302
Named one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by The Times-Picayune. Winner of the 2009 Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Awarded the New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for 2008. New Orleans is the most elusive of American cities. The product of the centuries-long struggle among three mighty empires--France, Spain, and England--and among their respective American colonies and enslaved African peoples, it has always seemed like a foreign port to most Americans, baffled as they are by its complex cultural inheritance. Th
Author: Caren Caraway
Publisher: Stemmer House Publisher
Keywords: design, library, international, congo, designs, african
Number of Pages: 1
Published: 1986-11-01
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0880450835
ISBN-13: 9780880450836
This book contains carved and linear designs taken from ceremonial and utilitarian objects.
Author: Jeffrey Tayler
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Keywords: heart, darkness, journey, day, congo, modern, facing
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2001-10-09
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0609808265
ISBN-13: 9780609808269
Faced with an identity crisis in his work and his life, seasoned traveler and journalist Jeffrey Tayler made a bold decision. He would leave behind his mundane existence in Moscow to re-create the legendary British explorer Henry Stanleys trip down the Congo in a dugout canoe, stocked with food, medicine, and even a gun-toting guide. But once his tiny boat pushed off the banks of this mysterious river, Tayler realized he was in a place where maps and supplies would have no bearing on his survival. As Tayler navigates this immense waterway, he encounters a land of smothering heat and intense r
Author: Ned Sublette
Publisher: Lawrence Hill Books
Keywords: silver, congo, square, spanish, orleans, made, new, world
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2009-09-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 1556529589
ISBN-13: 9781556529580
Named one of the Top 10 Books of 2008 by The Times-Picayune. Winner of the 2009 Humanities Book of the Year award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.Awarded the New Orleans Gulf South Booksellers Association Book of the Year Award for 2008.New Orleans is the most elusive of American cities. The product of the centuries-long struggle among three mighty empires--France, Spain, and England--and among their respective American colonies and enslaved African peoples, it has always seemed like a foreign port to most Americans, baffled as they are by its complex cultural inheritance.Th
Author: Michela Wrong
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: mobutu, congo, disaster, brink, kurtz, living, footsteps
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2002-06-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0060934433
ISBN-13: 9780060934439
During Mobutu Sese Seko’s 30 years as president of Zaire (now the Congo), he managed to plunder his nation’s economy and live a life of excess unparalleled in modern history. A foreign correspondent in Zaire for six years, Michela Wrong has plenty of titillating stories to tell about Mobutu’s excesses, such as the Versailles-like palace he built in the jungle, or his insistence that he needed $10 million a month to live on. However, these are not the stories that most interest Wrong. Her aim is to understand all of the reasons behind the economic disintegration of the most mi
