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020			_a0345378490
040			_aBSOP
041			_aEnglish
050			_aFIC _aC86c _a1980
100			_aCrichton, Michael
245			_aCongo / _cMichael Crichton.
264			_aNew York, USA: _bRandom House Publishing _c1980.
300			_a316p. ; _c17cm.
440			_aCongo
520			_aDeep 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. 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. 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. 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 . . . a drawing of an ancient lost city. 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 …
650			_aScience Fiction, Thriller, Adventure
942			_2lcc _cBK
999			_c53974 _d53974