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Mokele-Mbembe: Mystery Beast of the Congo Basin Paperback – Illustrated, February 13, 2010

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Explorer, cryptozoologist, and creationist Bill Gibbons has traveled to remote corners of the world in search of strange and unknown creatures. But Bill's heart is in Africa, where monstrous dinosaur-like creatures are still rumored to inhabit the vast swamps of the Congo Basin. In Mokele-Mbembe: Mystery Beast of the Congo Basin, Gibbons provides a fascinating insight into several expeditions that have ventured forth in search of suspected living dinosaurs, include several of his own. Here you will read about many amazing eyewitness testimonies and surprise encounters with these remarkable creatures. This book will take you on a journey into a true "lost world" of pygmy tribes, dense unforgiving jungles, hidden unexplored lakes, and rivers that run for hundreds of miles into a land that time has literally forgotten. No armchair explorer, Gibbons also details several other incredible creatures that by all accounts should have been extinct eons ago, yet are still encountered today by astonished eyewitnesses in the 21st century. Join Bill as he continues on his tireless quest in search of an animal that could well be the most important scientific discovery of this century!

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272 pages
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English
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Coachwhip Publications
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February 13, 2010
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7.5 x 0.57 x 9.25 inches
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1616460105
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978-1616460105
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Coachwhip Publications; Illustrated edition (February 13, 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1616460105
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1616460105
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.04 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.57 x 9.25 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #1,707,045 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,041 in General Africa Travel Books
- #1,635 in Expeditions & Discoveries World History (Books)
- #3,606 in Unexplained Mysteries (Books)

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dave

Interesting

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 10, 2022

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It was a bit long and was very detailed about minor traveling issues the author experienced. With that being said,, the author did convince me of the possibility of living dinosaurs in the Congo basin.. The crutch of his argument, which is convincing, is that the native people have no reason to fabricate their accounts of their experiences with unidentified animals and fauna. The author did lose me on a couple of outlandish leaps with minimal evidence, mainly a short excerpt on aliens. However, a majority of the book was committed to the search for living dinosaurs to which I have no quams.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 18, 2020

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This is a pleasant memoir of the authors exploratory trips into central Africa in search of the mythical Mokele-mbembe. It is also a fascinating treatise of the subject and all that is so far known biologically about the animal. It provides a sense of travel and adventure for armchair readers. It presents a convincing case for the continued existence of dinosaurs in the still vast and remote wetlands that continent.

The main drawback I see with his exploits is that he spends relatively little actual time in the swamps searching for the beast, so it is not surprising he fails to get proper documentation of it. Field naturalists may take decades in the field to find certain rare species. You really have to put a lot more time into it than a few days or weeks. Given that his trips are so fleeting, the book is also padded with superfluous information, such as who he talks to in the airport, what he buys while shopping, what he eats at restaurants. This does help to set the scene however.

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Jim B

CONVINCING EVIDENCE EVERYONE SHOULD READ

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 23, 2016

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The significance of what Bill Gibbons is documenting should be taken seriously by the academics. This is not an academic tome, both a positive and negative feature, but with more than adequate evidence to take his claim seriously that there are living dinosaurs in the deep regions of Africa. It reads like an exciting novel, but it is non-fiction. I got it for friends, a brave missionary family to the Cameroon who are mentioned in the book and who played a significant role in helping Gibbons bring this documentation. But, as expected, after reading much of it, I plan to get my own copy and recommend it to others. My only question, when will the "establishment" face reality about their false paradigm about dinosaurs dying out 65 million years ago, especially since the confirmation of soft tissue in so many dinosaur bones, is unexplained in any other way, except through "just so stories," than that they DID NOT die out 65 million years ago, in fact some are still very much alive.

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Edmond Schmolke

Mokele-Mbembe: Mystery Beast of the Congo Basin

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 11, 2013

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This book by William Gibbons is one of the best I have seen on the subject of the Mokele-Mbembe; the supposed living dinosaur inhabiting the far reaches of the Congo Basin in western Africa. He presents all the known evidence and then lets the reader decide if they believe or not. Mr. Gibbons has been to this area several times and is very familiar with his subject and with the African atmosphere geographically,politically and socially. I would ask anyone curious or doubting to read this book since you will get an education in the interiors of the dark continent whether you believe in the existence of Mokele-Mbembe or not. Having read the book, I tend to accept the existence of the creature
which is very similar in design to a sauropod dinosaur-a large long necked,long tailed,tree trunk legged plant eater. I have been a serious student of Dinosaur Science all of my life so the Congo Basin in my opinion would be the best and only location on earth in the 21st century where a relic population of dinosaurs could survive. Very interesting volume.

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Richard W. Cuthbert

Great book a About it's main subject[Live Sauropod Dinosaurs in Africa]But gets lost when talking about other cryptids.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 2, 2010

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While Williams Gibbons has written a very excellent book about possible living "sauropod" dinosaurs in Central Africa- he has unfortunately by chapter 12 of his book[where he discusses other "types" of living dinosaurs] he has apparently caved into the "political correctness" found even in the world of cryptozoology! Chapter 12 of his book describes the sightings of possible ceratopsian dinosaurs[centrosaurus,triceratops,styracosaurus] in Central Africa-He has them written off as prehistoric "rhinoceros" type mammals by the end of the chapter! Even though the known fossil record shows that none of these large horned mammals had 1. Neck frills 2 .forward facing brow horns 3.a beaked mouth! I would have given this book a "5 star rating" if the last few chapters of the had not given the FALSE impression that "Mokele-Mbembe" was the "Last" and only type of "Living Dinosaur" left in the world!

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GREAT ON TIME SERVICE

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 5, 2013

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This came very quickly my husband has been wanting this book. Thank you so much it will make a great Christmas present for him and i got it in three days

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jethomp

Poorly written and too much pontification

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 19, 2010

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Gibbons' book started out pretty well but after his conversion in The Congo his attitude towards science, the Congolese people and fellow crypto zoologists becomes slanted in a manner that I found off-putting. The book is not terribly well-written but I normally could let that slide if the overall tone had been better.

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Five Stars

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 7, 2012

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I like books about cryptozoology. I like the sense of mystery, wonder and thought of what still might be out there. I also like learning about other countries and cultures. I've read a number of books which I really enjoyed, ranging from various CFZ publications to older works about sea serpents, unicorns and phoenixes.

I didn't like Gibbon's work. I should have, it ticks all the right boxes in theory. Surely a book documenting various expeditions to search for the Mokele-Mbemebe should have been right up my street. It wasn't.

The books starts off rather well, in documenting historic sightings and past expeditions. This was all well written and informative. The book in format then radically changes to the form of an autobiography/travelogue. This too starts of quite interesting. The issues associated with securing visas etc was fairly illustrative. The descriptions of the Congo area are quite nice and descriptive.

However, alarm bells were set ringing for me when Mr Gibbons goes into detail about his Divine revelation. From then on the narrative becomes increasingly irritating and self-centred. We learn that apparently Charles Darwin had a lot to answer for. Really? What like freeing the human mind from the chains of religious dogma? But then of course, if we're going to start finger pointing then the Bible has been used as a justification for more than just the occasional war. And this is the problem with Gibbon's work, he starts making rather bland pronouncements and judgements on politics and religion, which unless I'm mistaken don't really have a place in a book about cryptozoology. We hear about the horrors of Communism and rages against 'Marxist oriented' states. Why? African corruption, social and cultural aspects come in for criticism too. The 'election' of George W Bush to leader of the 'free world' too is highlighted. Carl Sagan gets it in the neck. Yes, that's right it feels like you've entered the world of the stereotypical right-wing, bible-bashing Republican. And yet I don't actually mind people with alternative views. I read B M Nunnelly's book Inhumanoids, which really was a great and interesting read. He has his own unorthodox theory, which as he modestly states is just his theory - fair enough. Gibbons doesn't do this because he obviously sets great store by his opinions and it feels like you're part of a covert proselytising mission.

The second aspect I didn't like was the endless, pointless detail which grows worse and worse as the book goes on. We hear what he has for breakfast, what he does after it, what he does in the afternoon, where he had his photo taken. The worst point was when preparing for his third(?)expedition when describing his bout of influenza and ulcer in his mouth - it's all very self-indulgent and tiring. Gibbon's also complains a lot. He goes to Africa and moans a great deal about the accommodation, bureaucracy, food and just about everything. He makes sneering remarks about the real or imagined ailments of native Africans who queue up for treatment from people, who have actually gone out there to make a difference. I couldn't help but notice his account of his fellow travellers who spent the day carrying out charitable acts, while Gibbons evidently sat about waiting for them to finish. You could have lent a hand Bill, think of the thanks in Heaven.

If I'm honest I got two thirds of the way before trying to skip to the conclusion. This was no easy matter, as this involved a lengthy sift through huge amounts of semi-relevant information. This section of the book felt like arriving at random sections of Wikipedia. Demographics, tribal languages, the population of the Likoula region - it's all in there. Where's Mokele-Mbemebe? It is in there and gets decent treatment at the end, but getting to it was like wading through a swamp of thick vegetation in order to get a cursory glance. And that in short, is the problem with this book. There is an interesting story trying to break out, but it's too well-hidden and too camouflaged under the inane prattling and ill-informed commentary of William Gibbons. This book should have half the length at half the price. It isn't - avoid.

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