- kakundakari, type IIb, diamonds, thrillers
Congo is a 1980 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton, the fifth under his own name and the fifteenth overall. The novel centers on an expedition searching for diamonds and investigating the mysterious deaths of a previous expedition in the dense tropical rainforest of the Congo. Crichton calls Congo a lost world novel in the tradition founded by Henry Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, featuring the mines of that work's title. --- Also contained in: - [Congo/Jurassic Park](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8475707W) - [Congo / Sphere / Eaters of the Dead](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL14950504W/Congo_Sphere_Eaters_of_the_Dead)
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Classical in form, grave, unpretentious and plot-driven.
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- Author
- Michael Crichton
- First published
- 1980
- Pages
- 348
- Publisher
- Unknown, Plaza & Janes Editores, S.A., Cresset editions
- Editions
- 49
- Language
- Polish, Portuguese, English, French
- ISBN
- 9788846200037
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