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...black, in fact, that light penetrating to a depth of 1 ft. is only one-tenth as bright as light on its surface. At 2 ft., it is only one-hundredth as bright; at 6 ft., there is no light at all. Reason: unlike the Amazon's clear-water tributaries, the river does not originate primarily in mountains and course through relatively narrow channels, but flows sluggishly across flatland. jungle and swamp areas. Each year at flood stage the Rio Negro overflows its banks, while draining some 253,000 sq. mi. - an area almost as vast as Texas...
Brazil's Rio Negro, one of the Amazon's main tributaries, is truly black...
...like Chesapeake Bay," says Williams. Along the shore, trees and plants were steeped in 30 ft. of the river's opaque water. As the Alpha Helix moved along looking for a landing site, Williams noticed that there were astonishingly few insects, though they are maddeningly plentiful along the Amazon's clear, mountain-bred tributaries...
This inexplicable union of victim and executioner so unsettles Nicolas that he can no longer write fiction. To shape a new life, he takes a job with a new magazine, which assigns him to explore France "as you would the Amazon." He is accompanied on the quest by Marcelle Landau, a beautiful young woman who, because she had been a homely child, still thinks herself ugly. They become lovers, and since each is a grade A neurotic, the romance takes a rollercoaster course...
...Hyde. His short stories and most of his 90 novels all dealt with depravity. The theme: girl beats boy. Venus in Furs, his most widely read book, was typical of the rest, though hardly as explicit as some of today's sex fare: Wanda von Dunayev, an imperious Amazon, swaggers through a series of near pornographic episodes, whip in hand, abject lover at her feet. Domestic Treaty. In real life, Sacher-Masoch lived out the imaginings of his books. The model for Wanda was one Fanny Pistor Bogdanoff, a strapping lady with whom he spent six tawdry months...