Brazilian Adventure"Beyond the completion of a 3,000-mile journey, mostly under amusing conditions, through a little-known part of the world, and the discovery of one new tributary to a tributary to a tributary of the Amazon, nothing of importance was achieved." Nothing indeed. In 1932, Peter Fleming, a literary editor, traded his pen for a pistol and took off as part of the celebrated search for missing English explorer Colonel P.H. Fawcett. With meager supplies, faulty maps, and packs of rival newspapermen on their trail, Fleming and his companions marched, canoed, and hacked through 3,000 miles of wilderness and alligator-ridden rivers in search of the fate of the lost explorer. One of the great adventure stories, Brazilian Adventure is as fresh a story today as it was when originally published in 1933. |
Contents
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS | 13 |
SIGNING ON | 15 |
п THE MYSTERY OF COLONEL FAWCETT | 21 |
NO NONSENSE | 31 |
OUTLOOK UNSETTLED | 36 |
GETAWAY | 47 |
ROLLING DOWN | 51 |
RIO | 59 |
ANOTHER TRIBE | 182 |
SIGNS AND PORTENTS | 193 |
FORLORN HOPE | 203 |
THEN THERE WERE THREE | 215 |
MAINLY AMPHIBIOUS | 227 |
THE LAST FLING | 237 |
WHAT HAPPENED TO FAWCETT? | 252 |
PART THREE THE RACE TO THE AMAZON | 259 |
GETTING WARMER | 64 |
SNAKES AND A REVOLUTION | 71 |
FALSE START | 81 |
FRONTIER INTERLUDE | 87 |
THE ROAD UP COUNTRY | 93 |
ASSORTED ENCOUNTERS | 100 |
DELAYS AND DOUBTS | 104 |
THE REAL THING | 114 |
ARAGUAYA | 123 |
TICKS AND TOFFEE | 134 |
INDIANS AND OTTERS | 140 |
THE LAST OF THE DRAGONS | 150 |
ONE THING AND ANOTHER | 155 |
PART TWO HAND TO MOUTH | 161 |
AT THE CROSSROADS | 163 |
п LOST LEADER | 174 |
IRON RATIONS | 261 |
THE GLOVES ARE OFF | 267 |
THE RACE BEGINS | 276 |
THE FIRST RAPIDS | 281 |
THREE FRIENDS AND TWO MONKS | 290 |
ELEVEN MEN IN A BOAT | 303 |
RUCTIONS | 310 |
THE DISENCHANTING VILLAGE | 322 |
WE LOSE OUR LEAD | 334 |
NOBBLING THE FAVOURITE | 342 |
STERN CHASE | 352 |
A VERY SHORT HEAD | 357 |
EPILOGUE HOME SWEET HOME | 365 |
DOVER | 367 |
GLOSSARY | 375 |
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