Brazilian Adventure; Author: Fleming, Peter; Paperback

Author: Fleming, Peter
Paperback; Maps
384 pages
Published: November 1999
Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 081016065X
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In his famously ironic style, Peter Fleming writes in the introduction to 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.Fleming, a literary editor, discarded his pen for a pistol in 1932 to engage in the celebrated search for an English adventurer, Colonel P. H. Fawcett, missing in the jungles of central Brazil. With meager supplies, faulty maps, andrival newspapermen hot on their trail, Fleming and his companions marched, fought, and canoed through 3,000 miles of savage country and alligator-ridden rivers toward the uncertain fate of the lost coBrazilian Adventure is the story of Peter Fleming's involvement in the expedition to find Colonel Fawcett, who disappeared in Central Brazil searching for a lost city which had been reported in the 18th century.