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. 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. 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 fingerpaint. Congo by Michael Crichton: 9780307816504 : Books From the 1 New York Times bestselling author of Jurassic Park and Timeline comes a gripping thriller about the shocking demise of eight American geologists. A comparison of the two expeditions reveals much about the changingand unchangingnature of African exploration in the intervening century. Quite successful suspense thrillers that get turned into even more successful movies.

Michael Crichton writes suspense thrillers. 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. This book recounts the thirteen days of the last American expedition to the Congo, in June, 1979barely a hundred years after Henry Morton Stanley first explored the Congo in 187477. MOVIE REVIEW : They Took Crichton Out of the ‘Congo’. Travels is a 1988 nonfiction book by Michael Crichton that details how he abandoned his medical education at Harvard Medical School, moved to Los Angeles, and began his professional writing career with The Great Train Robbery (1975).

Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes.

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