Congo (novel)
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Congo is a 1980 lost world 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 investigatin
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King Solomon's Mines
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King Solomon's Mines is an 1885 popular novel by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist H. Rider Haggard. Published by Cassell and Company, it tells of an expedition through an unexplored
Congo (novel)
…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. ERTS, a fictional corporation, seeks a source of type IIb diamonds, which are naturally boron-doped and thus…
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The way to Kukuanaland
"To those who enter the hall of the dead, evil comes"; Walter Paget
Cover art from King Solomon's Mines, Avon Periodicals, 1951, art by Lee J. Ames.