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...results are spectacular. The structure, built on a slope, is dominated by a soaring Amazonian rain forest, lush with 300 species of plants. At its periphery, tree ferns and bromeliads flank a stream that leads to a mountainside flood-plain forest and an open vista of tropical savanna. There, plants from Africa, Australia and South America bask in a less humid atmosphere, where bees and hummingbirds help pollinate plants and a colony of termites aids in the decomposition of dying material...
...STORYTELLER by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $17.95). A Peruvian narrator, who strongly resembles his creator, remembers a college classmate in Lima during the 1950s and ponders the possibility that his old friend has become a bard to an endangered Amazonian tribe. This ruminative novel about storytelling and its place in society shows a world-class author in splendid form...
...STORYTELLER by Mario Vargas Llosa (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $17.95). A Peruvian narrator remembers a college classmate and ponders the possibility that his old friend has become a bard to an endangered Amazonian tribe. This ruminative novel about storytelling and its place in society shows a world- class author in splendid form...
...reflections are triggered by a chance encounter. On a sabbatical in Italy, reading for a change rather than writing, the narrator wanders through Florence and comes upon a small gallery exhibiting photographs from Peru. One of them arrests his attention. It shows a group of Amazonian Indians arranged in a circle around a standing figure, who seems to have his audience enraptured. The spectator recognizes the name of the tribe captured in the picture: the Machiguengas. He is also convinced he knows the identity of the mysterious speaker. It must be Saul Zuratas, a close friend when both were university...
CHICO MENDES: VOICE OF THE AMAZON (TBS, Nov. 1, 10:05 p.m. EST). This one-hour documentary focuses on the martyred Brazilian's efforts to save the Amazonian rain forest and includes the last television interview Mendes gave before his 1988 assassination...