01620cam a22001937a 4500003000900000005001700009008004100026020001500067040003300082041001300115082001500128100003600143245007300179260005900252300001000311520103000321650002501351700005001376BR-ReIFE20210928120322.0210304b1993    us  ||||r|||| 00| 0 eng u  a0345378490  aBR-ReIFEcBR-ReIFEdBR-ReIFE1 aporheng04a813bC928c1 aCrichton, Michael, d1942-2008.10aCongo /cMichael Crichton ; tradução de A. B. Pinheiro de Lemos.  aNova Iorque, Estados Unidos:bBallantine Books,c1993.  a316p.3 aDeep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists is mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes.
Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies — all motionless except for one moving image — a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur.
In San Francisco, primatologist Peter Elliot works with Amy, a gorilla with an extraordinary vocabulary of 620 “signs,” the most ever learned by a primate, and she likes to fingerpaint. But recently, her behavior has been erratic and her drawings match, with stunning accuracy, the brittle pages of a Portuguese print dating back to 1642 . . . a drawing of an ancient lost city. A new expedition — along with Amy — is sent into the Congo where they enter a secret world, and the only way out may be through a horrifying death…04aFicção americana1 aLemos, A. B. Pinheiro ded1938-2008etradutor