'He wrote like an angel - a fallen angel...a marvelous prose stylist' - "Irish Times". 'Who in his sense will read, still less buy, a travel book of no scientific value about a place he has no intention of visiting?'. Waugh provides the answer to his own question in this entertaining chronicle of a South American journey. In it, he describes the isolated cattle country of Guiana, sparsely populated by a bizarre collection of visionaries, rogues and ranchers, and records his nightmarish experiences traveling on foot, by horse and by boat through the jungle into Brazil. He debunks the romantic notions attached to rough traveling - his trip is difficult, dangerous and extremely uncomfortable - and his acute and witty observations in this marvelous travelogue give his reader 'a share in the experience of travel'.
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Höhe: 198 mm
Breite: 129 mm
Dicke: 10 mm
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978-0-14-018840-0 (9780140188400)
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Reasons for visiting Guiana - and for writing about it - family connection with Trinidad - Georgetown - history of Rupununi - Mr Bain - departure; Mr Bain's conversation - New Amsterdam - the Berbice - Mr Bain's solicitude - Yetto at a party - the savannah - Mr Bain's missing links - the bush - a snake - Kurupukari - farine and tasso - arrival of stores; difficulties of transport - second start - Yetto, Price and Sinclair - Jagger - Yetto's better days - Surna - Annai - an ill-natured horse - a mystic; Daguar's ranch - Hart's ranch - St Ignatius Mission - Figuiredo - the Boundary Commission; Brazilian savannah - amenities of Boa Vista - attempts to improve Boa Vista; "the company" - Father Alcuin - Mr Steingler - the Boundary Commissioner - horse-dealing - the new prior - escape for Boa Vista; leaving Boa Vista - change of route - lost on the savannah - pleasures of travelling - change of route - Karasabai - Tipuru; on foot in the hills - cabouri fly - Kenaima - Karto - djiggas - Kurikabaru - Santa Maria - Anundabaru - Mr Winter - base treatment of Eusebio; diamond washing and selling - Upper Potaro - a bad family - Kaieteur - Lower Potaru - Amatuk; Lower Potaro - Kangaruma - regular communications - Tuma-tumari - Rockstone - Wismar - Georgetown - conclusion.
