In the Heart of the AmazonBy turns fascinating, funny, and horrifying, this is Nick Gordon’s account of more thannbsp;10 years spent in the Amazonian forests as a wildlife filmmaker, snorting ground-up seeds with the local shaman, building an artificial tarantula habitat to film the furry monsters mating,nbsp;and killing and eating a two-foot snake. |
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Flight into the Unknown | 1 |
Venezuela | 13 |
Piaroa Pegleg and the Parasites | 27 |
Copyright | |
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