No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

O'Hanlon, Redmond

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ISBN 10: 0679737324 ISBN 13: 9780679737322

Casa editrice: Vintage, 1998

Riassunto

In a Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, the author recounts his search for the remains of a legendary dinosaur in the Congo, a tale of swamps, soldiers, sorcerers, and a supernatural monster. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

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L'autore:

A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society of Literature, Redmond O'Hanlon was the natural history editor of The Times Literary Supplement for fifteen years. He lives near Oxford, England, with his wife and their two children. "Among contemporary travel writers," according to the Washington Post, "he has the best nose for the globe's precious few remaining blank spots . . . Long may he trudge and paddle."

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

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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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0679737324
• ISBN 13: 9780679737322
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 480