Word: hell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disappeared in the Matto Grosso four years ago, has become almost a profession in itself. Alexander Siemel, now at the southwestern edge of the great forest, was a onetime Fawcett searcher. His onetime companions in the jungle were Mamerto Urriolagoitia. Bolivian consul general at London, and Julian Duguid (Green Hell). As soon as Consul Urriolagoitia gets his vacation from London this summer he will join Author Duguid for another search of the forest...
...GREEN HELL-Julian Duguid-Century...
Parts of South America are still wild & woolly country. One of them is jungly eastern Bolivia, which natives call the Chaco, which Author Duguid calls Green Hell. Before Duguid and his two companions (J. C. Bee-Mason and Mamerto Urriolagoitia), to their knowledge no white men had penetrated that tract since Nuflo de Chavez...
Dominating character in Green Hell is Alexander Siemel. Duguid paints a respectful portrait of him, gives some account of his early life. A Russian, Siemel worked as a printer on a Buenos Aires newspaper, left town when he fell in love with his best friend's wife. He worked in the forests as a woodcutter among the Indians, liked it so much he decided to stay. He learned jaguar-hunting from an Indian spearman, turned hunter himself. He has bayonetted many a "tiger" after cornering it with his dogs. He told Duguid a grim story: Siemel's brother...
...something vaguely literary. He tried school-teaching for a few years, then jumped at the chance to go exploring. He is now unofficially visiting the Matto Grosso expedition in order to complete a forthcoming biography of Tiger-Man Siemel. Last month Publisher Century radioed him that Green Hell had sold out three editions (16,000 copies...