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...book reader, but some minor adventures were every bit as dramatic. As a "gentleman rancher" in the Bad Lands of Dakotas, Roosevelt was also a deputy sheriff who won considerable repute catching three rustlers by himself. His African trip has been well recorded, but a remarkable trip up the Amazon at the age of 58, on which he caught an almost fatal does of jungle fever, went without much notice. Critics said he had an adolescent, romantic attitude toward dueling. This much is true: on several occasions he did come close too shooting it out, the most famous time with...
...Clark satisfied himself that he had found, on the banks of the Chiriaca River, a far western tributary of the Amazon, a reasonable facsimile of El Dorado. There, he traded all his spare equipment for 50 Ibs. of gold dust and nuggets sifted from the river gravel by friendly headhunters. On the journey out of the jungle, he and his companion were forced to bury about half the gold because it was too heavy to carry farther. Living comfortably in San Francisco now, Clark has never gone back to pick...
Spanish is the national language of Peru, but close to half a million Peruvians in the vast Amazon jungle areas speak only primitive native tongues and have no written languages. This block to mass education has long been a worrisome problem for the Peruvian government...
After the specially trained nine-man crew of artillerymen loaded her and hurried out of sight, 40-ft.-long "Amazon Annie" (also called "Atomic Annie") stood alone and silent on Nevada's Frenchman Flat. At a control point ten miles away, Atomic Energy Commission scientists got ready to turn on the remote-control firing apparatus. Then, at 8:30 one morning this week, the first atomic artillery shell ever fired whished from Amazon Annie's 280-mm. (11 in.) barrel and hurtled on its way. Above the target area, an atomic fireball blossomed, then a purplish cloud, that...
...became a Naval Observer and later in Buenos Aires, an Assistant Naval Attache. His fascination for Latin America did not develop at the University, however, where he majored in modern European history. After his junior year, a classmate urged him to join a snake-catching safari on the Amazon River. Glancing at the primitive spears in the corner of his room, he remarks, "After driving sixty miles up and over the Andes, we took a forty-foot mahogany canoc down the river, shooting at random crocodiles. . . I didn't bring any snakes back but I picked up a tiny marmoset...