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...enthusiasms sometimes stir her to enormous exertions. As a foreign correspondent, she fell in love with the Balkans so vigorously that Communist Chieftain Ana Pauker gave her four interviews. When she went to South America, she fell in love with it, too, and promptly took a trip up the Amazon...
Eventually Allison changed his mind, of course. When a big U.S. development company sent an expedition up the Amazon to explore the fabled area, he signed on for the trip. It just happened that Heroine Christine Barna was along, looking for her husband, a lost scientist. River of the Sun is Novelist James Ramsey Ullman's story of their expedition into the jungles of the Amazon...
Broadway to the Alps. The search for the River is not the first trip on the Amazon for Author Ullman, a rangy, weatherbeaten New Yorker who has put in his share of time among high mountains and in far-off jungles. A onetime Broadway producer (Pulitzer Prize-winning Men in White), he left Manhattan in 1936, after a series of flops, and headed straight for South America. Afterwards he wrote a fresh, lively account of his adventures in The Other Side of the Mountain...
Jungle to Swampland. Such careful preparations are not enough to keep the River flowing smoothly. Though it also is a Book-of-the-Month choice (for January), the story soon turns as turgid as the widest reaches of the Amazon itself: the expedition breaks down, fever rages, the natives want to quit. Scientist Barna is found, but he wants merely to live in peace with the natives so that he may expiate an old sin. Even the cast of characters seems to have escaped from the rolls of an old jungle thriller: a gigantic U.S. Negro, wanted for murder...
Read as a travel account of the Amazon country, River of the Sun has some sharp, descriptive stretches. The sullen natives, the oppressive jungle and the endless, swollen waters often seem as real as the thick river heat. But as a novel, River loses itself in the swampland long before it reaches...