The book read for my bibliographical essay was Congo, which was 313 pages long. It was written by Michael Crichton. It was about a gorilla and her teacher who went into the African rainforest with a group of scientists to find the Lost City of Zinj and blue boron tainted diamonds. In this essay there will be a summary of the events in this book and commentary about the book and how well it was written.

A team of scientists were in the African jungle on an expedition looking for blue Boron tainted diamonds for their company. They were killed by a mysterious force, but before the thing that killed them disappeared, a command control center in Houston, Texas recorded it. At first they did not know what the thing was. It looked like a gorilla because the shape was right and so was the body posture, but the image was blurred and indistinct so they could not be sure. So they called in one of their computer experts to try to clean up the image and make it clearer. The woman’s name was Karen Ross, she was a young enthusiastic woman who had years of experience in computer graphic applications, but did not know much about gorillas. She got

This was an excellent book. The writer did a very good job of intermingling fact with fiction. A lot of the information in his book was accurate. The author had done research on the African Rainforest setting and about the different types of gorillas, before he wrote this book, so he could write with some knowledge about the subjects. That is a very good technique when writing a book, because it makes it sound more realistic.

The next part of their plan required them to parachute out and land in dense tropical forest. Amy did not like jumping out of the plane and it scared her, so she tried to punish them by giving them the silent treatment, and by wandering far behind. She quickly realized that if she was going to be stubborn, it wasn’t going to work because they needed to river raft along the length of some part of a river. Gorillas don’t like water, and usually have a fear of it, and because Amy had never been forced to face up to that fear they had to tranquilize her so she would get in the boat. The rapids were hard in the river, and they almost capsized, but they made it and had to start hiking through the jungle.

When they got home, Elliot decided not to claim to have found a new species of gorilla. It would be very hard convincing the committee with no evidence such as pictures, bones, or recorded sounds. Ross left the company she was working for and started a job at another company. The Consortium went back to trying to artificially coat diamonds with Boron, that would suffice for their needs. And Munro went back to Africa, where he was arrested upon entering the country.

Elliot decided to take Amy with them so they could try to identify the gorilla that was on the tape. Ross got a plane through their company, but they did not have a guide to take them to the site. So on the way to the Congo, they stopped in another country to try to get a guide. When they got to the guide’s house, a “consortium” of people from other companies who had formed an alliance were already there and were bidding to see who would pay the most for a guide to take them to the lost city. Before the bidding was over, the consortium left. They had gotten news that there was another guide that could take them. Ross got the first guide, who’s name was Munro. He was an ex-con who was wanted in several countries for smuggling banned items in and out. They were about ready to leave when the consortium attacked the plane and kidnapped Amy. Ross realized it was only a ploy to keep them sidetracked for awhile so the consortium could get ahead. The plan did not work for the consortium because Ross had taken extra precautions earlier. He had given Amy a pill that looked like a vitamin but was really a tracking device. They found Amy in an abandoned landfill and, they were quickly on there way again. As soon as they crossed the border into the next country they were fired upon by the government. They were sending up old SAM’s leftover from a war, and were using them to try to destroy planes they may have been enemy or reconnaissance aircraft. They got hit and knew that if they tried to avoid the missiles by detouring they would lose precious time, so they rerouted quickly and got into a different smaller plane.

Some topics in this essay:
Ross Elliot, Amy Ross, African Rainforest, Japanese German, City Zinj, Sign Language, Houston Texas, Munro Africa, Karen Ross, Ballantine Books, sign language, lost city, elliot decided, heavy breathing, blue boron tainted, city zinj, blue boron, boron tainted, humans sometimes, outcome story, heard heavy breathing, boron tainted diamonds, events book,