Congo, Amérique et Cigares furent les seuls albums à être redessinés pour l’édition en couleurs. Ces trois aventures méritaient de profonds remaniements pour se retrouver, au milieu des années quarante, au niveau de qualité graphique et narrative atteint par Hergé à ce moment. Tintin au Congo fut toujours de très bonne vente. On se devait de le sortir rapidement en version“coul...(展开全部)

Chosen as a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of 2016, this poetic, nonfiction story about a little-known piece of African American history captures a human s capacity to find hope and joy in difficult circumstances and demonstrates how New Orleans' Congo Square was truly freedom s heart. Mondays, there were hogs to slop, mules to train, and logs to chop. Slavery was no ways...(展开全部)

约瑟夫•康拉德（1857-1924），英国作家，1857年生于波兰，有二十余年的海上生涯，曾航行世界各地，积累了丰富的海上生活经验。康拉德最擅长写海洋冒险小说，有“海洋小说大师”之称。1886年加入英国籍。一共写了13部长篇小说、28篇短篇小说和2篇回忆录，代表作有《水仙号上的黑水手》《吉姆爷》《诺斯特罗莫》《间谍》《黑暗的心》（后来被改编成电影《现代启示录》）等。

Originally published in 1902, Heart of Darkness remains one of this century's most enduring - and harrowing - works of fiction. Written several years after Conrad's grueling sojourn in the Belgian Congo, the novel tells the story of Marlow, a seaman who undertakes his own journey into the African jungle to find the tormented white trader Kurtz. Rich in irony and spellbinding pr...(展开全部)

约瑟夫•康拉德（1857-1924），英国作家，1857年生于波兰，有二十余年的海上生涯，曾航行世界各地，积累了丰富的海上生活经验。康拉德最擅长写海洋冒险小说，有“海洋小说大师”之称。1886年加入英国籍。一共写了13部长篇小说、28篇短篇小说和2篇回忆录，代表作有《水仙号上的黑水手》《吉姆爷》《诺斯特罗莫》《间谍》《黑暗的心》（后来被改编成电影《现代启示录》）等。

On June 30, 1960—the day of the Congo’s independence—Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba gave a fiery speech in which he conjured a definitive shift away from a past of colonial oppression toward a future of sovereignty, dignity, and justice. His assassination a few months later showed how much neocolonial forces and the Cold War jeopardized African movements for liberation. In Stud...(展开全部)

In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million--all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a...(展开全部)

In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million--all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a...(展开全部)

To Graham Greene, 'Africa will always be the Africa of the Victorian atlas, the blank unexplored continent the shape of the human heart.' "In Search Of a Character" contains two African notebooks: Congo Journal, which records Graham Greene's travels in 1959, and his stay at the Yonda leper colony in the jungle which inspired the story for "A Burnt-Out Case". Convoy to West Afri...(展开全部)

At the heart of Africa is Congo, a country the size of Western Europe, bordering nine other nations, that since 1996 has been wracked by a brutal and unstaunchable war in which millions have died. And yet, despite its epic proportions, it has received little sustained media attention.In this deeply reported book, Jason K. Stearns vividly tells the story of this misunderstood co...(展开全部)