Congo: Book Guide, Author and Facts
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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.
Quick facts about Congo
- Title: Congo
- Author: Michael Crichton
- First published: 1980
- Genre: kakundakari, type iib, diamonds
- OpenLibrary ID: OL46913W
Where to read Congo
Congo by Michael Crichton is widely available in print, ebook and audiobook editions from major retailers and libraries.
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Congo is a 1980 science fiction novel by Michael Crichton, the fifth under his own name and the fifteenth overall.
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Congo was written by Michael Crichton.
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Congo was first published in 1980.
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