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...expressing some thoughts about the omnipresence of early death by misadventure: "No wonder the population was so perpetually young, so beautiful." Into the Heart of Borneo makes the island more surreal than enticing; nevertheless, O'Hanlon has announced plans for a similar three-month tour down the Amazon. Some people never learn; and a good thing...
What's the logical extreme? How much farther can this go? Not far off, it seems, is the hirsute man plunging into the churning, blood warm waters of the Amazon with live steamy Nordic goddesses, a virile Californian casing his board down the vertiginous drop of the falls and no can of the within 10,000 miles...
...acters complete the collection. The Pole salutes the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott, who perished in the Antarctic. It also celebrates Nabokov's favorite turf: terra incognita. The playwright liked to dream of butterfly-hunting trips to the Caucasus, Mount Elbrus, the Amazon. And he recalled "tingles of delight, of envy, of anguish (when) I watched on the television screen the first floating footsteps of man in the talcum of our satellite and how I despised those who maintained it was not worth all those dollars to walk in the dust of a dead world...
...Paris. He could walk in the Jardin des Plantes and hear the big cats roaring and coughing a few hundred yards away in their iron cages, jungle sounds floating to him through a screen of lush foliage. He "knew" what the Nile looked like, and the Niger, and the Amazon: muddier and steamier than the Seine, and lined with a frieze of swollen aspidistras. Out of this, on occasion, he could distill incantation. The Snake Charmer, 1907, condenses a huge popular imagery of the noble savage and the mysterious East. Its wonderful flora--the light ocher blooms like hydrangeas...
...parked outside the U.S. embassy in Bogota, killing a woman and, when backed up by telephoned death threats, causing 17 U.S. officials and their families to leave the country. In Peru, 19 members of a U.S.-sponsored program to eradicate coca bushes in the wilds of the Amazon jungle were killed, four of them, the State Department was told, after being tortured. In Bolivia, intelligence agents discovered that Colombian and Bolivian cocaine traffickers had paid a gunman $500,000 to murder U.S. Ambassador Edwin Corr (the ambassador continues to drive around La Paz, varying his routes and his routine each...