No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

O'Hanlon, Redmond

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679406557 ISBN 13: 9780679406556

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1997

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Book by OHanlon Redmond

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The author describes his dangerous odyssey into the Congo in search of a dinosaur-like creature, documenting his encounters with Africa's flora and fauna, its fascinating people, and the political and social problems afflicting the region. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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or, full of African birdsong and told with great narrative force, No Mercy is the magnum opus of "probably the finest writer of travel books in the English language,"  as Bill Bryson wrote in Outside, "and certainly the most daring."  

Redmond O'Hanlon has journeyed among headhunters in deepest Borneo with the poet James Fenton, and amid the most reticent, imperilled and violent tribe in the Amazon Basin with a night-club manager. This, however, is his boldest journey yet. Accompanied by Lary Shaffer--an American friend and animal behaviorist, a man of imperfect health and brave decency--he enters the unmapped swamp-forests of the People's Republic of the Congo, in search of a dinosaur rumored to have survived in a remote prehistoric lake.

The flora and fauna of the Congo are unrivalled, and with matchless passion O'Hanlon describes scores of rare and fascinating animals: eagles and parrots, gorillas and chimpanzees, swamp antelope and

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0679406557
• ISBN 13: 9780679406556
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 461