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In Trouble Again : A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon
In Trouble Again A Journey Between the Orinoco and the Amazon Author:Redmond O'Hanlon After spending two months travelling through the primary rain forests of Borneo, Redmond O'Hanlon thought a four-month trip up the Orinoco River and across the Amazon Basin would pose no particular problem. — He was wrong. The re-reading of his nineteenth-century heroes,, Humboldt and Russel Wallace and Bates, gave comprehensive indications o... more »f the natural hazards. Some were almost reassuringly familiar from his time in Borneo; amoebic and bacillary dysenteries, fevers of several colors, cholera, rabies, hepatitis. And there were others: the fearsome AIDS-like Chagas' disease; riverblindness; leishmaniasis; and the prowling dangers of jaguars, anacondas, and the toothpick-fish.
But the story which emerges of O'Hanlon's journey through the Venezuelan Amazonas is that of an entirely different hazard" the human factor. In his insatiable ornithologist's quest for novelty, and the single-minded desire to find a route through uncharted dendritic rivers, the author finds it is his photographer and his Spanish and Indian crew who are the most volatile elements - even more so than the Yanomami tribesmen they come across, reputedly the 'most violent people on Earth'.« less