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JOURNEY TO THE FAR AMAZON, by Alain Gheerbrant. This Frenchman's account of a journey into the Amazon jungles was probably the most exciting and certainly the best written adventure book of the year...
What Authors Bombard and Gheerbrant suggest, each in his own way. is that there is hardly a greater menace to the adventure of expanding knowledge than ordinary bonsens...
...they were men. As Gheerbrant came to know them, he noted in their skeletal figures and leprous faces "gentle curves, tender gestures, naive curiosity and strange wishes and desires," and realized that despite the thousands of years that separated him from them they were linked by the common bond of humanity...
...precipitous waterfalls. Once it took the explorers a week to advance a mile overland. But finally, with muddy, lifeless faces, they emerged to the "civilization [that] awaited us, with its haste and its rapacity, but also with its power and its glory." Through all the mishaps of his trip, Gheerbrant managed to hold onto his notes. He is a poet and has transformed them into a fascinating and noble book...
Food in the Sea. Author Alain Bombard's Atlantic adventure, set down in The Voyage of the Heretique, was even more primitive than Gheerbrant's Amazonian hardships. For 65 days and nights, from the Canaries to the West Indies, he was alone on the vast waters of the ocean (TIME. Jan. 5. 1953), living only on the fish and birds he could catch and eat raw and the liquid he could get from...