Fueled by a powerful curiosity - and by a need to see, feel, and hear, firsthand and close-up - Michael Crichton's journeys have carried him into worlds diverse and compelling - swimming with mud sharks in Tahiti, tracking wild animals through the jungle of Rwanda. This is a record of those travels - an exhilarating quest across the familiar and exotic frontiers of the outer world, a determined odyssey into the unfathomable, spiritual depths of the inner world.

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now humankind’s most thrilling fantasies have come true. Creatures extinct for eons roam Jurassic Park with their awesome presence and profound mystery, and all the world can visit them - for a price.

名だたる文筆家が登場する、文藝春秋の文化講演会。舞台にかける情熱、物語に対する真摯、劇場に寄せる期待、観客に向ける感謝、ことばに亘る愛情、一幕に光る未来。井上ひさしが生涯を捧げた小説と演劇について熱烈に語る。名劇作家の手にかかれば、講演会すらひとつの芝居になる。(1988年11月2日 名古屋市民会館 菊池寛生誕百周年記念講演会より)
●父帰り、みな家出する。 ●作者と客の違った関係 ●見習い女中パミラ~世界初の小説~ ●桟敷群像 ●二度と会えない向こうの人よ! ●観客が走り飛び乗る終電車 文藝春秋の文化講演会は、文学談や執筆秘話に人生論も交え、含蓄と味わい深い講演があなたの生き方に豊かさと彩りを添えます。

The United States government is given a warning by the preeminent biophysicists in the country: current sterilization procedures applied to returning space probes may be inadequate to guarantee uncontaminated re-entry to the atmosphere.

Deep in the African rain forest, near the legendary ruins of the Lost City of Zinj, an expedition of eight American geologists are mysteriously and brutally killed in a matter of minutes. Ten thousand miles away, Karen Ross, the Congo Project Supervisor, watches a gruesome video transmission of the aftermath: a camp destroyed, tents crushed and torn, equipment scattered in the mud alongside dead bodies - all motionless except for one moving image - a grainy, dark, man-shaped blur.