Running the AmazonThe voyage began in the lunar terrain of the Peruvian Andes, where coca leaf is the only remedy against altitude sickness. It continued down rapids so fierce they could swallow a raft in a split second. It ended six months and 4,200 miles later, where the Amazon runs gently into the Atlantic. Joe Kane's personal account of the first expedition to travel the entirety of the world's longest river is a riveting adventure in the tradition of Joseph Conrad, filled with death-defying encounters: with narco-traffickers and Sendero Luminoso guerrillas and nature at its most unforgiving. Not least of all, Running the Amazon shows a polyglot group of urbanized travelers confronting their wilder selves -- their fear and egotism, selflessness and courage. |
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... canal , the Puinahua , that he described as a shortcut to Iquitos . The other men corroborated this , and we made the colossal mistake of trusting them . We spent four days lost in the Puinahua Canal , and at towns even more desperate ...
... canal , the Puinahua , that he described as a shortcut to Iquitos . The other men corroborated this , and we made the colossal mistake of trusting them . We spent four days lost in the Puinahua Canal , and at towns even more desperate ...
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... canals and tidal currents in the Gurupá Canal , the northern route might deliver us to the sea as much as two weeks earlier than the southern . We discussed the question for an hour or so , but in the end decided as I suspected we knew ...
... canals and tidal currents in the Gurupá Canal , the northern route might deliver us to the sea as much as two weeks earlier than the southern . We discussed the question for an hour or so , but in the end decided as I suspected we knew ...
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... canal so narrow we had to kayak in single file . The shacks were little more than rotting trash piles , the people few and spiritless . No birds sang , no fish jumped . From time to time herds of two - inch opaque - yellow ...
... canal so narrow we had to kayak in single file . The shacks were little more than rotting trash piles , the people few and spiritless . No birds sang , no fish jumped . From time to time herds of two - inch opaque - yellow ...
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