Word: junglelands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trees swarmed with black urchins and the crowds along the road shouted "Vive le Roi!" as Leopoldville welcomed young (25) King Baudouin to the Belgian Congo's steamy, metal-rich and thriving jungleland. Resplendent in white-and-gold uniform, Baudouin was the first Belgian monarch the Congo had seen since 1928, when grandfather Albert I visited a far less prosperous and bustling Congo...
...stranger runs well-documented risks in the Peruvian jungleland east of the Andes. Some have had their heads lopped off and shrunken as trophies; others have been eaten alive by ants; still others have been emasculated like steers, fattened on oily berries and served up to cannibals. Leonard Clark of San Francisco is an experienced jungle man who risked these dangers to look for gold and lived to tell about it. In The Rivers Ran East, he has written one of the most rousing adventure yarns of the season...