Paul Belloni du Chaillu
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | Date: 2008
Paul Belloni du Chaillu see Du Chaillu .
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KING WRONG; The new King Kong, out this week, will once again portray gorillas as being bloodthirsty sexual predators. The truth couldn't be more different.
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; Byline: CHRISTOPHER HUDSON VERY soon, cinema-goers around the world will be queuing up to see a giant gorilla slavering over a captive Naomi Watts before grabbing her and lurching off into the jungle of Skull Island. King Kong is probably the closest to a real gorilla that most of these film-going
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Close encounters in the wilderness
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Using satellite technology to find precious minerals
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A Dog's Head
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; A Dog's Head, by jean Dutourd. Nearly a half century old, Jean Dutourd's recently reissued tale of the lighter side of social ostracism is not mere tongue-wagging, but a very sage and engaging "animated" fantasy. Edmond Du Chaillu has a spaniel's head and a sense of humor. Follow Edmond from his
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A Dog's Head.(Review)(Brief Article)
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; by Jean Dutourd, tr. Robin Chancellor. University of Chicago Press, 149 pp., $12.00 (paper). Critically well received in England and the United States when it was first published 45 years ago, this re-released French novel tells the story of Edmund du Chaillu, who is born with a cocker spaniel's
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Travel guide.
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Paul Belloni Du Chaillu
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... America. His published account, Explorations in Equatorial Africa (1861), upset the previous ideas of the region's geography; Du Chaillu made a second expedition (1863-65) to prove the truth of his account. On this trip he visited many tribes hitherto unknown ...
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