Michael Crichton: Congo (USA 2009) From the Publisher: Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies -- all motionless except for one moving image -- a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur. In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with an extraordinary vocabulary of 620 "signs," the most ever learned by a primate, and she likes to finger paint. But recently her behavior has been erratic and her drawings match, with stunning accuracy, the brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642... a drawing of an ancient lost city. A new expedition -- along with Amy -- is sent into the Congo, where they enter a secret world, and the only way out may be through a horrifying death... Michael Crichton: Congo. Harper, ISBN: 9780061782558 (April, 2009), 496 p., $9.99.
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Michael Crichton: Congo (USA 2003) From the Publisher: Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies -- all motionless except for one moving image -- a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur. In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with an extraordinary vocabulary of 620 "signs," the most ever learned by a primate, and she likes to finger paint. But recently her behavior has been erratic and her drawings match, with stunning accuracy, the brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642... a drawing of an ancient lost city. A new expedition -- along with Amy -- is sent into the Congo, where they enter a secret world, and the only way out may be through a horrifying death... Michael Crichton: Congo. Avon Books, ISBN: 0060541830 (October, 2003), 480 p., $7.99.
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Michael Crichton: Congo (UK 1995) From the Publisher: Michael Crichton: Congo. Arrow, ISBN: 0099544318 (June, 1995), 370 p., £4.99 (?).
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