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Edward L. Ullman, associate professor of Regional Planning, is quitting the University faculty because there is "no opportunity" for really "productive teaching and research" in geography here...
RIVER OF THE SUN (444 pp.)-James Ramsey Ullman-Lippincott...
...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...
...mountaineering that ranks with the best on the subject. And his first novel, The White Tower, was good enough as straight adventure in the Swiss Alps to become a Book-of-the-Month Club choice in 1945, later a Technicolor thriller. Before setting out to write River, Author Ullman took a refresher trip to South America to make sure of his earlier impressions...