No Mercy

A Journey to the Heart of the Congo

Paperback
$16.95 US
On sale Jun 30, 1998 | 480 Pages | 9780679737322

The most intrepid traveler since Stanley found Livingstone is on a literary journey so fraught with humor, discovery, and terror that it makes Heart of Darkness read like a drawing-room comedy. This time Redmond O’Hanlon is in the People’s Republic of the Congo, in search of the legendary dinosaur of Lake Télé. But between him and his goal lie miles of swamp-forest, leopards, flesh-eating ants, repulsive diseases, trigger-happy soldiers, and a supernatural entity called the Samalé, which mutilates victims with its three-clawed hands.

“A naturalist willing to go further and suffer more indignities than anyone in the name of a good story.... The details in his new book are riveting.... A wonderful writer.”—Wall Street Journal
A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society of Literature, Redmond O'Hanlon was the natural history editor of The Times Literary Supplement for fifteen years. He lives near Oxford, England, with his wife and their two children. "Among contemporary travel writers," according to the Washington Post, "he has the best nose for the globe's precious few remaining blank spots . . . Long may he trudge and paddle." View titles by Redmond O'Hanlon

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The most intrepid traveler since Stanley found Livingstone is on a literary journey so fraught with humor, discovery, and terror that it makes Heart of Darkness read like a drawing-room comedy. This time Redmond O’Hanlon is in the People’s Republic of the Congo, in search of the legendary dinosaur of Lake Télé. But between him and his goal lie miles of swamp-forest, leopards, flesh-eating ants, repulsive diseases, trigger-happy soldiers, and a supernatural entity called the Samalé, which mutilates victims with its three-clawed hands.

“A naturalist willing to go further and suffer more indignities than anyone in the name of a good story.... The details in his new book are riveting.... A wonderful writer.”—Wall Street Journal

Author

A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society of Literature, Redmond O'Hanlon was the natural history editor of The Times Literary Supplement for fifteen years. He lives near Oxford, England, with his wife and their two children. "Among contemporary travel writers," according to the Washington Post, "he has the best nose for the globe's precious few remaining blank spots . . . Long may he trudge and paddle." View titles by Redmond O'Hanlon

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