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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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The wonderland of the Eastern Congo: the region of the snow-crowned volcanoes, the pygmies, the giant gorilla, and the okapi

The wonderland of the Eastern Congo: the region of the snow-crowned volcanoes, the pygmies, the giant gorilla, and the okapi

Alexander Barns, T.

Paperback

African HistoryGeneral Asia

ISBN10: 9353708281
ISBN13: 9789353708283
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 1 2019
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Snow-crowned volcanoes on the horizon, rainforest at your feet. Then the forest closes in. T. Alexander Barns takes you deep into the eastern Congo in a vivid african exploration travelogue drawn from a Belgian Congo expedition into the Virunga volcanoes region. Part classic safari memoir, part field report, it moves between hard-won travel detail and attentive observation of congo rainforest wildlife: elusive forest peoples, the shadowed presence of the giant gorilla, and the rare okapi whose okapi natural history still fascinates readers today. Barns writes with a practical eye for terrain, climate, camp life and the pressure of distance, making this one of those jungle expedition classics that reads with the momentum of true passage rather than posed adventure. As a document of the era of classic African expeditions, the book carries historical weight as well as narrative pull, capturing a contested landscape through the lens of early twentieth-century exploration and collecting. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. For armchair travel reading, it offers texture, place and lived experience; for a collectors edition shelf, it stands as a distinctive record of mountain gorilla encounters and Congo discovery writing at its most direct.

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