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This volume is one of Conan Doyle's appeals to public opinion, in this case calling for international intervention over the running of the Belgian Congo (modern-day DRC), which he called "the greatest crime in history. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Low readability in a number of passages
When I ordered this book, I was not informed of the production process. At the reception of the book I read "How We Made This Book" on page IV.I quote: "We automated the typing, proof reading and design of this book using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software on a scanned copy of the original rare book. That allowed us to keep the cost as low as possible."
Nice. If I had known this before I whouldn't have bought it, for I had already worked with OCR and found out that you often get some odd results as OCR frequently does not recognize characters and vomits parts of sentences in some not yet discovered language. For example: "wittTfijeacHaL", or:"Jf Jhev will notgCL-thfij are shot down, theijJeiUiandsbeing cut off". That's what the reader of this book is confronted with. Okay, not on every page, but too often for me to enjoy reading it. ... Read more

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The Democratic Republic of Congo, formerly Zaire, continues to struggle with socioeconomic and political development. Culture and Customs of the Congo provides the full context of traditional culture and modern practices against a backdrop of a turbulent history. The volume opens up a land and peoples little known in the United States. Written expressly to meet the needs of students and the general audience, the work will inform about the geography, economy, political history, and history from the slave trade to dictatorship; ancestral religions and inroads of western faiths; ancestral literary heritage and communication; art, architecture, and housing; diet and dress; marriage, family, and women; lifestyles and life events, and traditional and modern music and dance. ... Read more