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Congo Kitabu
Congo Kitabu is an auto-biographical book about the travels of Jean-Pierre Hallet through central Africa from 1948 through 1960. In it he documents interactions with multiple isolated cultures throughout the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi regions. His accounts provide a unique anthropological source of information of the Congo basin during that period.
Dr. Hallet's accounts incl...more
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Published
1964
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I lived next to the author in Westchester LA as a 10 year old in 1964 At the time, he scared the hell out of me. (In person, he was very intimidating to a child) His house was full of strange and interesting things he brought back from africa But meeting him and knowing about his life and work also inspired my lifelong love of travel and indigenous peoples which contributed to my getting a degegree in anthropology. I would have loved to talk with him as an adult.
EXCELLENT! One of the most thrilling true life adventures I have ever read, written by a man who had experienced all that Africa had to offer. Jean-Pierre Hallet truly lived life to its fullest. A real page turner, one that I was sorry to come to the end of, as I wanted it to go on and on. For those who thirst for adventure, this is a must.
Remarkable true story of the author's high adventure in the Congo, where he lodst a hand in an explosion, and lived to fight a leopard AND a lion. He made the talk show circuits and was a fascinating man.
Very good depiction of life in Africa in the '50's through the eyes of a government worker. an important perspective on the independence movement of the '60's in the Congo and surrounding areas.
very intriguing story about the life of the native people in the Congo (masai, pygmies etc). John Prizer met the author Jean-Pierre Hallet.
Spell-binding autobiographical narrative of Hallet's ethnographic studies and travels in mid-20th century central Africa.
His passionate love of the Congolese landscape, it's animals and people is extraordinary.
For many, many years this was my all time favorite book.
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This old OOP book is very exciting, and worth tracking down if you're interested in African exploration and adventure.
Read it many years ago. What an eye opener, especially when it comes to the community of elephants
In my top four most-astonishing-adventure books ever read. This is Tarzan meets real life.
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Jean-Pierre Hallet was a man more intimately connected to Africa than perhaps any other westerner. His feats were legendary-what one expects of fiction and adventure movies. About his mission to save the vanishing Bambuti pygmy tribe in the Ituri Forest in Northeast Zaire, the newspapers and magazines of three decades reported it in various ways. He Saves Little People; A Giant Comes To The Rescue...more
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