A unique book of exploration, which defies the canons and sets up a
new standard for itself. Throughout one is conscious of sincerity,
integrity but withal a gentle spoofing and poking fun at serious
explorers, and at the paraphernalia, impedimenta, stage properties
and backdrops which characterize most books in this field. With
delicious irony and undercurrent of humor, the young author tells
of the ill-considered, casually planned trip into central Brazil,
in search of evidence concerning the disappearance of Colonel
Fawcett. He makes mild adventures of what most writers would
consider hairbreadth escapes from starvation; he minimizes the
discomforts of the tropics; he paints amusing portraits of his
fellow travelers, particularly the crooked director of the
enterprise, Major Pingle; and yet it is all entertaining reading.
For the customer who takes his escape literature with a spice of
humor. Book of the Month Selection. (Kirkus Reviews)
""Beyond the completion of a 3,000-mile journey, mostly under
amusing conditions, through a little-known part of the world, and
the discovery of one new tributary to a tributary to a tributary of
the Amazon, nothing of importance was achieved."" Nothing indeed.
In 1932, Peter Fleming, a literary editor, traded his pen for a
pistol and took off as part of the celebrated search for missing
English explorer Colonel P.H. Fawcett. With meager supplies, faulty
maps, and packs of rival newspapermen on their trail, Fleming and
his companions marched, canoed, and hacked through 3,000 miles of
wilderness and alligator-ridden rivers in search of the fate of the
lost explorer. One of the great adventure stories, Brazilian
Adventure is as fresh a story today as it was when originally
published in 1933.
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