Paradise with Serpents: Travels in the Lost World of Paraguay

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Harper Perennial, 2007 - History - 376 pages
Robert Carver, journalist and author of the acclaimed Among the Mountains', searches for high adventure and intense experiences as he follows the trail of a family mystery .

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Contents

Map
1
An Ambassador is Born
13
Counting Paraguay
24
Copyright

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About the author (2007)

Robert Carver was brought up in Cyprus, Turkey and India. Educated at the Scuola Medici, Florence, and Durham University, where he read Oriental Studies and Politics, he taught English in a maximum security gaol in Australia and worked as a BBC World Service reporter in Eastern Europe and the Levant. Four of his plays have been broadcast by the BBC. He has written for the Sunday Times, Observer, Daily Telegraph and other papers and is the author of The Accursed Mountains (Flamingo 1999) and Paradise with Serpernts (2007).

Bibliographic information

TitleParadise with Serpents: Travels in the Lost World of Paraguay
AuthorRobert Carver
Editionillustrated
PublisherHarper Perennial, 2007
ISBN0002570963, 9780002570961
Length376 pages
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History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
History / General
History / Latin America / South America
History / Modern / 20th Century / General
Travel / Essays & Travelogues
Travel / South America / General
  
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