Advantages: Indepth, engaging, and a well- balanced message Disadvantages: Come on! its Crichton! how can there be disadvantages?
...settings. No. Like Jurassic Park, Congo is set in a tropical location, this time the Congo rainforests (hence the title) as oppose to a tropical island. The book deals withunnatural animals slaughtering our intrepid team, but the similarities stop here.
Congo is excellent. It has it all, a staple of Crichtons works. It has science, humanity, carnivosous animals, the futility of technology against nature, and a rip- roaring plot to boot. Congo deals ... ...went missing while searchign the Congo for a valuable blue diamond. The last ERTS hear of the team is from a video uplink, showing a devestated basecamp, dead teammembers and a fleeting glimpse fo what could be a gorilla...
ERTS sends in its second team, accompanied by teh mercenary soldier and guide Munro, who is a kind of Ray Mears mixed with GI Joe, and Dr. Peter Elliot, a primatologist trying to return a gorilla named Amy, fluent in sign language, ...
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...about an exploration into the Congo Rain Forest in Zaire. The company sending in the operation, ERTS, are in search of valuable blue diamonds, which are believed to be located in the lost city of Zinj, untouched and unexplored for five hundred years. Their rivals the Euro-Japanese seem to be winning and when they reach Zinj the end is far ahead and, at times, out of sight. ERTS on Peter Elliot and Amy to aid their party in the field, Amy is a gorilla!
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