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| Author | : James Henderson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 98 |
| Release | : 2015-02-11 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781496967763 |
This book is a record of a personal journey of a lifetime that continues to have a profound influence even after forty years. Join me and King Kong for some of the most amazing experiences you will ever encounter. They will be beautiful, sometimes ugly, and almost spiritual at times, as well as beyond description. This is a trip full of wonder and challenge through a part of the world that most people have never seen. Come and enjoy it with me.
| Author | : Jennifer Frantz |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2005-11-08 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0060772999 |
When an American film crew arrives on his island, Kong takes a liking to actress Ann Darrow. Follow this gigantic gorilla as he kidnaps Ann and fends off the other strange beasts to keep her safe. Full color.
| Author | : James Henderson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 274 |
| Release | : 2020-07-09 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 9781649341082 |
In 1974 my best friend John talked me into joining him for a trip around the world after I completed my Master's Degree. Our journey really began when we stepped off the ferry in Tangiers and found ourselves surrounded by an army of small children hustling us with places to stay, places to eat, and things to buy. A few days later we met up with an overland expedition traveling from London to Nairobi in two old British Army vehicles. One of the vehicles was an old bus named King Kong, and over the next two months we experienced almost daily mechanical problems that slowed our pace of travel significantly. And then the day came when Kong died in the middle of the Sahara Desert when a valve went through the top of a piston. Suddenly we were stranded 200 miles from the nearest town. It took two weeks to get replacement parts flown out from London and to rebuild the engine. Not only was this a monumental mechanical breakdown, it was also a physical and mental breakdown for many of us on the trip, having already suffered from the oppressive heat in the desert, sickness, and unsanitary conditions. Back on the road we made our way through the Sub-Sahara Sahel, the thick jungle and mud of the Congo, before arriving on the plains of East Africa, with the ghost of mechanical failure ever lurking around the next bend in the road. Along the way there were unforgettable people and places that constantly challenged our curiosity and emotions. There was the enjoyment of savoring fresh chocolate served on a banana leaf, shopping in colorful local village markets where everything from beetle nuts to insect larvae were for sale, a celebration for a new village chief in the heart of the Congo, camping below Stanley Falls, the sounds of lions in the night, and a hundred other special moments that I captured with my pen and camera. It was literally the experience of a lifetime that I want to share with all those who dream of visiting strange and far off places!
| Author | : Jennifer Frantz |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2005-11-08 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0060773006 |
Based on the major motion picture King Kong from Universal Pictures-P. 1] of cover.
| Author | : Jennifer Frantz |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781424206148 |
Skull Island is a mysterious place, come and explore but be careful, there is danger lurking everywhere! Includes colorful illustrations and notes to caregivers.
| Author | : Edgar Wallace |
| Publisher | : Modern Library |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2018-09-25 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1984854860 |
The original novelization of King Kong, featuring a new introduction by Jack Thorne, the Tony-winning playwright of King Kong: Alive on Broadway, and cover art by the celebrated Olly Moss The giant primeval gorilla King Kong is one of the most recognized images in our culture. So great is the mighty Kong’s hold on the popular imagination that his story has inspired an entire cinematic universe. Now the legendary monster comes to the stage in the brand-new musical King Kong: Alive on Broadway. Beneath King Kong’s cultural significance, however, is a tense and surprisingly tender story. One cannot help but be frightened by Kong’s uncontrollable fury, be saddened over the giant’s capture, mistreatment, and exploitation by venal showmen, or sympathize with the beast’s ill-fated affection for the down-on-her-luck starlet Ann Darrow. With a foreword by Mark Cotta Vaz, the preeminent biographer of Merian C. Cooper, producer of the original 1933 classic film.
| Author | : James McBride |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 385 |
| Release | : 2020-03-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 073521672X |
Winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Fiction Winner of the Gotham Book Prize One of Barack Obama's "Favorite Books of the Year" Oprah's Book Club Pick Named one of the Top Ten Books of the Year by the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and TIME Magazine A Washington Post Notable Novel From the author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird, and the bestselling modern classic The Color of Water, comes one of the most celebrated novels of the year. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and, in front of everybody, shoots the project’s drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong, James McBride’s funny, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird. In Deacon King Kong, McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it, the white neighbors, the local cops assigned to investigate, the members of the Five Ends Baptist Church where Sportcoat was deacon, the neighborhood’s Italian mobsters, and Sportcoat himself. As the story deepens, it becomes clear that the lives of the characters—caught in the tumultuous swirl of 1960s New York—overlap in unexpected ways. When the truth does emerge, McBride shows us that not all secrets are meant to be hidden, that the best way to grow is to face change without fear, and that the seeds of love lie in hope and compassion. Bringing to these pages both his masterly storytelling skills and his abiding faith in humanity, James McBride has written a novel every bit as involving as The Good Lord Bird and as emotionally honest as The Color of Water. Told with insight and wit, Deacon King Kong demonstrates that love and faith live in all of us.
| Author | : Catherine Hapka |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 28 |
| Release | : 2005-11-08 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0060773030 |
King Kong has grabbed Ann! Can her friends survive dinosaurs, water monsters, and giant bugs long enough to rescue her?
| Author | : Cynthia Erb |
| Publisher | : Wayne State University Press |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2009-04-01 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0814337422 |
Studies the cultural impact and audience reception of King Kong from the 1933 release of the original film until today. In Tracking King Kong Cynthia Erb charts the cultural significance of the character of King Kong, from the early 1930s, when Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s classic film King Kong was first released, to Peter Jackson’s 2005 remake. Although King Kong has received much academic attention over the past twenty-five years, the bulk of these analyses deal with the film’s human characters rather than Kong himself. In this revised edition of an influential study, Erb argues that King Kong is a particular kind of cultural outsider who represents a cross-penetration of American notions of exoticism and monstrosity. Tracking King Kong considers problems such as race and gender in the King Kong tradition, as well as historical, international, and contemporary audience and fan responses to this classic film and its popular protagonist. Erb begins her examination of King Kong in the 1930s, when the original film was produced and released, extending through the 1970s, when the film and its hero reached the height of their cultural visibility in a remake by Dino De Laurentiis, and concluding with a look at Peter Jackson’s version in 2005. The book includes a detailed production history of the original 1933 film based on primary historical and archival sources; a genre study examining Kong’s relations to horror, jungle adventure, and travel documentary genres; an analysis of Kong’s influence on the Japanese film Godzilla; and a look at sequels, remakes, and spinoffs related to King Kong, such as Mighty Joe Young. Erb also analyzes Jackson’s remake of King Kong, to determine how and why Jackson revised the main character, casting him as a melancholy hero. The revised edition of Tracking King Kong updates a groundbreaking study of King Kong as the iconic character enters the twenty-first century. Scholars of film and television studies as well as general readers interested in film and popular culture will appreciate this significant volume.
| Author | : James Henderson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-04-28 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : |
The journey really began when John and I stepped off the ferry in Tangiers and suddenly found ourselves in a strange and exotic land. A few days later, we joined an overland expedition travelling from London to Nairobi in two vintage British Army vehicles, one of which was an old bus nicknamed "King Kong." Over the next five months, the expedition took us across the burning sands of the Sahara Desert, through the steaming jungles of the Congo, and eventually to the vast plains of East Africa. Along the way, King Kong suffered countless mechanical breakdowns, including two weeks stranded in the middle of the Sahara, when a valve dropped through one of the pistons in the engine two hundred miles from the nearest town. Throughout the journey there were unforgettable people and places that challenged our curiosity and emotions. There was the enjoyment of savoring fresh chocolate served on a banana leaf, shopping in the colorful village markets where everything from beetle nuts to insect larvae were for sale, a celebration for a new village chief in the heart of the Congo, camping below Stanley Falls, a fascinating encounter with the Pygmies in the Ituri Forest, the roar of lions in the night on the plains of East Africa, climbing Mt Kilimanjaro, and a hundred other special moments that I captured with my pen and camera. And somewhere along the way, between the desert and the jungle, I discovered an incredibly special person who would change my life forever - my wife to be! She was one of the members of the expedition, and over the course of several weeks, we became intimately involved. After reaching Nairobi, we spent a month together on the lovely island of Lamu in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Kenya - a tropical paradise where our love grew even stronger. The memories of traveling overland across Africa have stayed with me ever since - truly the experience of a lifetime!
