13 Top nonfiction books like No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo (Vintage Departures) by Redmond O'Hanlon

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No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo (Vintage Departures)

By: Redmond O'Hanlon

3.99

Format: None pages,

If you liked the nonfiction plot in No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo (Vintage Departures) by Redmond O'Hanlon , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets

By: Sudhir Venkatesh

4.07

Format: 302 pages, Hardcover

The story of the young sociologist who studied a Chicago crack-dealing gang from the inside capture… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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2. Birds Without Wings

By: Louis de Bernières

4.16

Format: 554 pages, Paperback

In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with … read more

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"The dead can read tears."

-Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings

"Money has no religion except itself."

-Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings

"The first causalities of a religion are the intentions of its founder"

-Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings

"That's how a woman wins a mans heart, by making him think that he amuses her."

-Louis de Bernières, Birds Without Wings

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3. John Lennon: The Life

By: Philip Norman

4.04

Format: 851 pages, Hardcover

For more than a quarter century, biographer Philip Norman's internationally bestselling Shout! has … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"You know...give peace a chance, not shoot people for peace. All we need is love. I believe it. it's damned hard but I absolutely believe it. We're not the first to say 'Imagine no countries' or 'Give…"

-Philip Norman, John Lennon: The Life

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4. South: The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914 - 1917

By: Ernest Shackleton

4.05

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In 1914, as the shadow of war falls across Europe, a party led by veteran explorer Sir Ernest Shack… read more

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  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • nonfiction
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5. Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire

By: Simon Winchester

2.67

Format: 166 pages, Paperback

Simon Winchester, struck by a sudden need to discover exactly what was left of the British Empire, … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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6. South of Broad

By: Pat Conroy

3.55

Format: 199 pages, Hardcover

The one and only Pat Conroy returns, with a big, sprawling novel that is at once a love letter to C… read more

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7. The Pickwick Papers

By: Charles Dickens , Mark Wormald

3.87

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers--a comic masterpiec… read more

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8. I Am Ozzy

By: Ozzy Osbourne , Chris Ayres

4.11

Format: 176 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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9. The Outsider

By: Colin Wilson

4.11

Format: 559 pages, Paperback

Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . The Outsider is the seminal wor… read more

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  • nonfiction

10. Arrow of God (The African Trilogy #3)

By: Chinua Achebe

3.82

Format: 254 pages, Paperback

Set in the Igbo heartland of eastern Nigeria, one of Africa's best-known writers describes the conf… read more

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11. Any Human Heart

By: William Boyd

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Logan Gonzago Mountstuart, writer, was born in 1906, and died of a heart attack on October 5, 1991,… read more

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12. Finding George Orwell in Burma

By: Emma Larkin

4.26

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

A fascinating political travelogue that traces the life and work of George Orwell in Southeast Asia… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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13. De eeuw van mijn vader

By: Geert Mak

5.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Wat verbindt ons met al diegenen die in de voorbij e eeuw geleefd hebben? Is het niet hun menselijk… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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14. No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo (Vintage Departures)

By: Redmond O'Hanlon

3.99

Format: None pages,

read more

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  • africa
  • biography
  • memoir
  • adventure
  • travel
  • animals
  • nonfiction

15. The Kingdom by the Sea

By: Paul Theroux

3.36

Format: None pages,

It was 1982, the summer of the Falkland Islands War, and the birth of the royal heir, Prince Willia… read more

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16. Berlin Alexanderplatz

By: Alfred Döblin

4.10

Format: None pages,

Biberkopf hat geschworen, er will anstandig sein, und ihr habt gesehen, wie er wochenlang anstandig… read more

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17. The General in His Labyrinth

By: Gabriel García Márquez , Edith Grossman

3.99

Format: None pages, Hardcover

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Gabriel Garcia Marquez s most political novel is the tragic story of… read more

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18. Three Day Road

By: Joseph Boyden

3.91

Format: 631 pages, Paperback

It is 1919, and Niska, the last Oji-Cree woman to live off the land, has received word that one of … read more

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19. Berichten van het Blauwe Huis

By: Hella S. Haasse

3.18

Format: 159 pages, Paperback

Na een halve eeuw in het buitenland te hebben doorgebracht, keren de zusters Felicia en Nina terug … read more

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20. The Pillars of Hercules

By: Paul Theroux

3.48

Format: None pages, Paperback

"DAZZLING." --Time "[THEROUX'S] WORK IS DISTINGUISHED BY A SPLENDID EYE FOR DETAIL AND THE TELLING … read more

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21. The Barbary Pirates (Ethan Gage, #4)

By: William Dietrich

3.32

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

"William Dietrich is a born stylist, moving characters around on an historical chessboard with the … read more

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22. The Shadow of the Sun

By: Ryszard Kapuściński , Klara Glowczewska

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule… read more

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23. The Moor's Last Sigh

By: Salman Rushdie

4.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found  Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is a 'high-born crossbreed', the… read more

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24. The Lyrics

By: Paul McCartney

4.59

Format: 960 pages, Hardcover

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Washington Post Notable Book Excerpted in The New Yorker A work of… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
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25. Of Mice and Men

By: Kevin Hinkle

4.22

Format: 40 pages, Paperback

None read more

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"No,"

-Kevin Hinkle, Of Mice and Men

"A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and runs deep and green."

-Kevin Hinkle, Of Mice and Men

"They all sat still, all bemused by the beauty of the thing, each mind was popped into the future when this lovely thing should come about."

-Kevin Hinkle, Of Mice and Men

"George uzdahnu. - Milija je meni obična javna kuća - reče. - Tamo čovjek može ući i napiti se i istjerati sve iz sebe odjednom, a bez neprilika. I zna koliko će ga stajati. A ovo ti je meka za zatvor…"

-Kevin Hinkle, Of Mice and Men

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26. The Twilight World

By: Werner Herzog

3.87

Format: 144 pages, Hardcover

The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a… read more

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27. Erebus: The Story of a Ship

By: Michael Palin

4.29

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

In the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign, HMS Erebus undertook two of the most ambitious naval … read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • adventure
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28. Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past

By: Jessica J. Lee

3.42

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Combining an immersive exploration of nature with captivatingly beautiful prose, Jessica J. Lee emb… read more

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  • travel
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • memoir
"A taxi driver asked me why my Mandarin was so good for a foreigner. “My mother is from Taiwan,"

-Jessica J. Lee, Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past

"And where I couldn’t find words, I fell to other languages: to plants, to history, to landscape."

-Jessica J. Lee, Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past

"This is not a place I could simply learn, and it is not mine anyway. I belong in a forest in a much bigger, colder country. I am not built for heat any more than my mother was built for winter. I spe…"

-Jessica J. Lee, Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past

"His was a slow leaving. He had resisted it. In his letter were parts I had never seen of the smiling, quiet man who had made spaghetti or folded dumplings, who had danced giddy with me in stacked sho…"

-Jessica J. Lee, Two Trees Make a Forest: Travels Among Taiwan's Mountains & Coasts in Search of My Family's Past

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29. Rationality

By: Steven Pinker

3.85

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 In Rationality, Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are … read more

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  • nonfiction
"Everyone wants someone to help but prefers that it not be them."

-Steven Pinker, Rationality

"If contemporary humans seem irrational, don't blame the hunter-gatherers."

-Steven Pinker, Rationality

"The press is an availability machine. It serves up anecdotes which feed our impression of what's common in a way that is guaranteed to mislead."

-Steven Pinker, Rationality

"Disagreement is necessary in deliberations among mortals. As the saying goes, the more we disagree, the more chance there is that at least one of us is right."

-Steven Pinker, Rationality

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4.07

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4.04

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Ernest Shackleton

4.05

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Richard Dawkins

4.01

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Robert M. Sapolsky

4.16

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Robert M. Sapolsky

4.25

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