The expedition, which was searching for deposits of valuable diamonds, discovered the legendary Lost City of Zinj. in the dense rainforests of the Virunga region, in the heart of the Congo, when the team is suddenly attacked and killed by unknown creatures – soon, all contact with them is lost.
The novel starts in 1979, with an abrupt end to an expedition sent by Earth Resource Technology Services Inc.
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. 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. Knopf publishers, New York Book Club Edition hardbound in blue and red boards with bold gilt stamp lettering along spine very good condition with unmarked pages dust jacket quite good.Ĭongo is a 1980 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton.
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