Mad White Giant

Benedict Allen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2002
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-20617-9 (ISBN)

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The author stumbles on his own through the Amazonian jungle, inspired with youthful dreams of being an explorer. Face to face with the harsh reality of existence alongside the Indians, Allen tells a tale of mishaps, dangers and sheer endurance.

This is Benedict Allen's first book - a tale of triumphs, mishaps, dangers and sheer bloody-minded endurance but, at another level, an exploration of the Amazon's dark themes of allurement and exploitation. At the age of 22, inspired by a youthful aspiration to be an explorer, Allen set out to travel from the mouth of the Orinoco to the mouth of the Amazon. But as he stumbled through the Amazonian jungle, he was soon confronted by the harsh reality of his isolation in the midst of potentially perilous territory. Mercifully, the experience of living in the rainforest among indigenous Indians taught him how to survive - a skill of which he soon found himself to be in considerable and urgent need.

Benedict Allen is one of the UK's most prominent explorers. For the past twenty-five years he has conducted solo expeditions through the Amazon jungle, along Namibia's Skeleton Coast and across Mongolia's Gobi Desert without the use of GPS, satellite phone or other means of outside support, as we as having written ten books of his adventures and editing The Faber Book of Exploration. He was the first explorer to bring the full experience of remote travel to television - taking the genre to its limits by not using a camera crew and so bringing an immediacy to his experiences. Allen regularly gives lectures at the Royal Geographic Society.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.2.2002
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Südamerika
ISBN-10	0-571-20617-4 / 0571206174
ISBN-13	978-0-571-20617-9 / 9780571206179
Zustand	Neuware