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Maps & Travel Books
Congo (Bradt Travel Guide) -
2008- (Paperback)
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) - Europe
the first full guidebook to
publish new information on both the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the
People’s Republic of Congo (PRC) in well over a decade. It will appeal to
travelers who are seeking to explore a new region of Africa emerging from many
years of conflict, a region that is changing rapidly as stability returns to
the region. Natural history is given due prominence in this guide, the Congo
possessing a high percentage of Africa’s remaining, intact rainforest.
Facing the Congo (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) Europe
by Jeffrey Tayler
For those
who consider themselves 'travelogue-junkies,' this book will be a nice addition
to your collection(s)and imagination(s). This book will give you plenty of
sights, smells, and images to think about as you read the book, and to further
think about after you put it down. (A reader from Arcata, CA USA )
Congo Sheet map, Full colour Maps Worldwide
Published by Institut Geographique
National
No Mercy : A Journey to the Heart of
the Congo (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) Europe
O'Hanlon journeys to the Congo in
search of a dinosaur rumored to still live in a remote lake: his observations
of wildlife and natives alike make for a riveting armchair read both literary
in its style and personal in its delivery. A "must" for any who would journey
to the Earth's remotest regions without leaving home. (Midwest Book
Review)
Africa Solo : A Journey Across the
Sahara, Sahel, and Congo (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) Europe
by Kevin Kertscher
a
wonderfully compelling book. It is an easy to read narrative of a man who is
doing what most of us at one time have thought about doing-exploring! I enjoy
travel books because it sends you to locations you've never been. You can feel
the desert fever, hear the silence, and taste the sand on your face. It was a
great book and I recommend it! (a reader from Tumwater WA)
East Along the Equator : A Journey Up the Congo and into
Zaire (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) Europe
In this brilliant mix of
political journalism and travel writing, Helen Winternitz and fellow journalist
Timothy Phelps witness what few Westerners have: life in the ecologically rich
but financially impoverished American-backed dictatorship of Zaire, the former
Belgian Congo.
People, Culture & Economics
African Designs of the Congo (The International Design
Library) (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) Europe
by Caren Caraway
East of the Atlantic, West of the Congo : Art from
Equatorial Africa : The Dwight and Blossom Strong Collection
(amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) Europe
Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville (African Studies
Series, No 87) (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) Europe
by Phyllis M. Martin
a
well-known Africanist scholar, opens up a whole new field of African research:
the leisure activities of urban Africans. Her comprehensive study, set in
colonial Brazzaville, investigates recreational activities from football and
fashion to music, dance and night life. In it, she brings out the way in which
these activities built social networks, humanised daily life and forged new
identities, and explains how they ultimately helped to remake older traditions
and values with new cultural forms.
Chamalongo- Congo Divinations (amazon.com) - USA
by Carlos Montenegro
The
divination rituals performed by an initiated Congo priest are collectively
known as the Chamalongo. The Divination by means of seashells is called Vititi
Nkobo.The divination by means of coconut shells is known as Vititi Nkandian.
The author Carlos Montenegro an initiated Congo priest of Carribbean Palo
Mayombe and Brazilian Quimbanda describes how to prepare the chamalongos, the
divination ritual and how to interpret all the major oddus. The book also
includes the rituals and prayers which accompany each of the oddus.
Country Review, Congo (DRC) 1999/2000
(amazon.com) - USA
by Robert C. Kelly (Editor), Debra
Ewing (Editor), Stanton Doyle (Editor), Denise Youngblood (Editor)
up-to-date source for political and economic information
Other Books & Novels
By the Grace of God : A True Story of Love, Family, War
and Survival from the Congo (amazon.com) - USA (amazon.co.uk) Europe
by Suruba Ibumando Georgette
Wechsler, Suruba Georgette Iboumando Wechsler, Suruba G. Ibumando Wechsler,
Howell Wechsler (Contributor
riveting saga of one family's love and
survival through the wars, tyranny, corruption, and epidemics that have plagued
the Congo over the past 40 years. The story centers on Georgette, a mischievous
tomboy from a small, isolated town in Central Africa, who overcomes a harrowing
childhood as a war refugee to earn a masters degree from an American university
and become a passionate convert to Judaism
Monkey Sunday : A Story from a Congolese Village
(amazon.com) - USA
by Sanna Stanley (Illustrator)
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