Emerald Labyrinth
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Emerald Labyrinth

A Scientist's Adventures in the Jungles of the Congo

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eBook - ePub

Emerald Labyrinth

A Scientist's Adventures in the Jungles of the Congo

About this book

Emerald Labyrinth is a scientist and adventurer's chronicle of years exploring the rainforests of sub-Saharan Africa. The richly varied habitats of the Democratic Republic of the Congo offer a wealth of animal, plant, chemical, and medical discoveries. But the country also has a deeply troubled colonial past and a complicated political present. Author Eli Greenbaum is a leading expert in sub-Saharan herpetology—snakes, lizards, and frogs—who brings a sense of wonder to the question of how science works in the twenty-first century. Along the way he comes face to face with spitting cobras, silverback mountain gorillas, wild elephants, and the teenaged armies of AK-47-toting fighters engaged in the continent's longest-running war. As a bellwether of the climate and biodiversity crises now facing the planet, the Congo holds the key to our planet's future. Writing in the tradition of books like The Lost City of Z, Greenbaum seeks out the creatures struggling to survive in a war-torn, environmentally threatened country. Emerald Labyrinth is an extraordinary book about the enormous challenges and hard-won satisfactions of doing science in one of the least known, least hospitable places on earth.

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Information

Publisher
ForeEdge
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781512600971
eBook ISBN
9781512601206
Subtopic
Ecology

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. List of Abbreviations
  8. A Note Regarding Provinces
  9. 1. No Joy in the Brilliance of Sunshine
  10. 2. King Kong of Kahuzi Volcano
  11. 3. The Wrong Place at the Wrong Time
  12. 4. The Rats of Miki
  13. 5. A Vampire in Virunga
  14. 6. Wandege’s Eye
  15. 7. The Murderer of Mugegema
  16. 8. Congolization
  17. 9. This Man Is Not Right in the Head
  18. 10. Frogs in Elephant Footprints
  19. 11. The Death of Asukulu
  20. Acknowledgments
  21. Congolese Swahili Glossary
  22. How Can I Help?
  23. Notes
  24. References
  25. Index
  26. Color images