The Encounter
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1969: Loren McIntyre makes contact with the elusive Mayoruna 'cat people' of the Amazon's Javari Valley. He follows them - into the wild depths of the rainforest. When he realises he is lost, it is already too late.
Stranded and helpless, McIntyre must adjust to an alien way of life. Gradually, he finds his perception of the world beginning to change, and a strange relationship starts to develop with the Mayoruna chief - is McIntyre really able to communicate with the headman in a way that goes beyond words, beyond language?
Petru Popescu's gripping account of McIntyre's adventures with the Mayoruna tribe, and his quest to find the source of the Amazon, is reissued here to coincide with Complicite's acclaimed new stage production, The Encounter, inspired by McIntyre's incredible story.
Pushkin Press are reissuing The Encounter: Amazon Beaming, with a new foreword by Simon McBurney and cover designed by David Pearson, to accompany McBurney's and Complicite's dazzling, highly acclaimed stage production inspired by the book.
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[Petru Popescu] gives McIntyre's story the narrative drive of a thriller... a book that suggests new ways of looking at the world and our place within it * Sunday Telegraph * Blazing tale of mysticism and acculturation * Financial Times * [An] eye-popping account... according to several excited critics, McBurney's use of the very latest in sound technology has the miraculous effect of making you feel you're right there in the Amazon jungle with Loren McIntyre and the Mayoruna. But for proof that the same effect can be produced by the rather less advanced method of ink on paper, look no further than this book * Daily Mail * As powerful and mystical as any ancient epic... Travel writing in a class of its own: Heart of Darkness meets Walden * The Lady * A fascinating tale of ethical and spiritual dilemmas * Wanderlust * An extraordinary, gripping tale * Publishers Weekly * Strange and wonderful... Fascinating reading... A sort of Castaneda exercise in mystical and ecological inquiry * Kirkus Reviews *More details
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Moving to the United States, he wrote movies including The Last Wave and Death of an Angel, before returning full time to fiction. The Encounter: Amazon Beaming, Almost Adam, The Return, and The Oasis made him known worldwide. In The Encounter, the theme of exploring and winning one's freedom within oneself makes an unforgettable character from the discoverer of the Amazon's source, Loren McIntyre. Undoubtedly, freedom is Popescu's signature motif. Popescu is married to screenplay writer Iris Friedman, and they live in Los Angeles.
Born in London in 1957, Simon McBurney is an actor, director and writer, as well as the founder and artistic director of the acclaimed UK theatre company Complicite, whose productions include The Master and Margarita and A Disappearing Number.