Brazilian Adventure - Softcover

Peter Fleming

Softcover

ISBN 10: 087477246X ISBN 13: 9780874772463

Publisher: J. P.Tarcher Inc, 1983

Synopsis

Recounts a recent expedition through the Matto Grosso of Brazil and the group's efforts to determine the fate of the Fawcett expedition of 1925

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Review:

While novelist Ian Fleming is best known for bringing adventurer James Bond to life, his writer brother Peter Fleming, a reporter for The Times of London, survived South American misadventures so challenging they make 007's high-risk existence seem placid in comparison. Lured by a mysterious newspaper ad, Fleming sails with an expedition to Brazil in the 1930s, attempting to answer unresolved questions about a team of explorers, headed by a British Colonel Fawcett, that disappeared in 1925. Once arrived in Brazil, Fleming's expedition falls apart, being equipped with few provisions, erroneous maps, and a despotic leader who proves to be less than fearless in the Amazon jungles. The team soon splits, with former colleagues battling the elements and competing with each other in a race for time and a search for truth. A finely crafted travel tale, with prose that's sometimes as dense and colorful as the jungles it's set in, Brazilian Adventure manages to turn the harrowing into cheeky commentary and barely contained comedy. --Melissa Rossi

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About this edition

• Publisher: J. P.Tarcher Inc
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 087477246X
• ISBN 13: 9780874772463
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 376