Brazilian Adventure
Autor Peter Flemingen Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 oct 1999
"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.
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780810160651
ISBN-10: 081016065X
Pagini: 376
Dimensiuni: 133 x 210 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Marlboro Press
ISBN-10: 081016065X
Pagini: 376
Dimensiuni: 133 x 210 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Marlboro Press
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Notă biografică
Peter Fleming (1907–1971), the brother of novelist Ian Fleming, wrote for the London Evening Standard, the Spectator, the BBC, and the Times of London. His travels took him to Mexico, Brazil, Russia, China, Japan, Tibet, and Manchuria. He died in a hunting accident in Scotland.
Cuprins
Foreword
Part One: Through the Looking Glass
I. Signing On
II. The Mystery of Colonel Fawcett
III. No Nonsense
IV. Outlook Unsettled
V. Getaway
VI. Rolling Down
VII. Rio
VIII. Getting Warmer
IX. Snakes and a Revolution
X. False Start
XI. Frontier Interlude
XII. The Road Up Country
XIII. Assorted Encounters
XIV. Delays and Doubts
XV. The Real Thing
XVI. Araguaya
XVII. Ticks and Toffee
XVIII. Indians and Otters
XIX. The Last of the Dragons
XX. One Thing and Another
Part Two: Hand to Mouth
I. At the Cross-Roads
II. Lost Leader
III. Another Tribe
IV. Signs and Portents
V. Forlorn Hope
VI. Then There Were Three
VII. Mainly Amphibious
VIII. The Last Fling
IX. What Happened to Fawcett?
Part Three: The Race to the Amazon
I. Iron Rations
II. The Gloves Are Off
III. The Race Begins
IV. The First Rapids
V. Three Friends and Two Monks
VI. Eleven Men in a Boat
VII. Ructions
VIII. The Disenchanting Village
IX. We Lose Our Lead
X. Nobbling the Favourite
XI. Stern Chase
XII. A Very Short Head
Epilogue: Home Sweet Home
Dover
Glossary
Maps
Part One: Through the Looking Glass
I. Signing On
II. The Mystery of Colonel Fawcett
III. No Nonsense
IV. Outlook Unsettled
V. Getaway
VI. Rolling Down
VII. Rio
VIII. Getting Warmer
IX. Snakes and a Revolution
X. False Start
XI. Frontier Interlude
XII. The Road Up Country
XIII. Assorted Encounters
XIV. Delays and Doubts
XV. The Real Thing
XVI. Araguaya
XVII. Ticks and Toffee
XVIII. Indians and Otters
XIX. The Last of the Dragons
XX. One Thing and Another
Part Two: Hand to Mouth
I. At the Cross-Roads
II. Lost Leader
III. Another Tribe
IV. Signs and Portents
V. Forlorn Hope
VI. Then There Were Three
VII. Mainly Amphibious
VIII. The Last Fling
IX. What Happened to Fawcett?
Part Three: The Race to the Amazon
I. Iron Rations
II. The Gloves Are Off
III. The Race Begins
IV. The First Rapids
V. Three Friends and Two Monks
VI. Eleven Men in a Boat
VII. Ructions
VIII. The Disenchanting Village
IX. We Lose Our Lead
X. Nobbling the Favourite
XI. Stern Chase
XII. A Very Short Head
Epilogue: Home Sweet Home
Dover
Glossary
Maps
Recenzii
"Mr. Fleming has a really exciting story to tell." --Evelyn Waugh
"One of the most amusing and engaging travel records ever written. . . . If Max Beerbohm had been sent out to search for Dr. Livingstone and had written a book about it, the result might have been something like Brazilian Adventure." --The New Yorker
"[I]f not the best travel book every written--though I think arguably it is--remains hands-down the funniest." --The Financial Times
Descriere
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.