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“Her impressions are fresh and vivid, and the further she goes from civilisation the better she writes.” The Daily Telegraph.
In 1971 Marika Hanbury-Tenison set out with her explorer husband Robin on an expedition, backed by Survival International, to visit and live among the Indians of Central Brazil, some of the most isolated and mysterious native communities in the world. This is her story of that expedition.
It is, in her own words, ‘a light-hearted account of our journey and experiences in Brazil as seen through the eyes of a novice in the exploring world.’
In fact Marika Hanbury-Tenison is a superb observer. Suddenly uprooted from domesticity as a cookery writer at her Cornish home, she finds herself in one of the richest, most alien and most extreme environments in the world. Whether she is writing about high life in Rio, the simple joy of native communities on the Xingu river, or the plight of the poor whites in the inland shanty-towns, she enlivens everything with the sharpness and warmth of her description.
But she is primarily a good story-teller. The characters she meets on her eventful journey and the stories they themselves have to tell make this book a most enjoyable and delightful read. |
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