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Title: The Rivers Ran East: Travelers' Tales Classics by Leonard Clark, Larry Habegger, Walter Frass Von Wolfenegg ISBN: 1-885211-66-X Publisher: Travelers' Tales Inc Pub. Date: 09 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.69 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The true tale of a successful search for spain's gold!
Comment: Clark,an American who helped engineer the resistance to the Japanese occupation of China, goes looking to the source of gold flowing to Spain from the new world. He finds the key in the archives of Spain. He travels alone into the interior of the Amazon river basing seeking the gold source. His guide abandons him the first day into the trek, leaving Clark armed only with his wits and a .38cal revolver. The story takes you into the vicious lifes of the head hunting Juarvo indian natives,..even as friends, they are deadly. To say more would give away the story. The reader gets a stark education of the ways of the not so primitive South American jungle inhabitants. Add to the mix a young Italian lady on a shadowing river boat, who is all to eager to assist him. But , in his quest, or demise. The book should be labelled as addictive to anyone who likes to read fast moving, hair raising non-fiction. REVIEWER NOTE: "The Rivers Ran East." is such a fantastic story that when it was published, no one took it seriously. Finally, two expedientions were mounted to follow Clark's footsteps. The first found that the indian resistance was even more formidable than Clark had reported and turned back. The second team found the gold, it is the richest gold strike in history. Their claim is said to the to be the "most expensive real estate on earth."
Rating: 5
Summary: All about Leonard Clark..........
Comment: I've nothing to add to the others reviews, because you've said all. I can only add that I've read this book for the first time when I was fourteen and today, that I'm 46 years old, I've read it again experiencing the same emotions! Now I want publish all that I found on the web: all the books and articles and the links to buy them and have more informations too!
You can find informations on the author and his masterpiece "The rivers ran east" on... and here an abstract follows "Leonard Clark [1907(1905?) - 1957)] was perhaps one of the greatest of all twentieth-century explorers. He did not believe in big expeditions and elaborate paraphernalia - he was a man who carried his own belongings and charged ahead. This same trait enabled him to perform extraordinary feats of military intelligence and reconnaissance in difficult and dangerous areas during World War II. Clark attended the University of California, then joined the army, attaining the rank of colonel. During the war, he spent many months in China behind Japanese lines organizing guerrilla activity. His post-war expeditions began in Borneo, and over the years he made trips to Mexico, the Celebes, Sumatra, China, India, Japan, Central America, South America, and Burma." He passed away in 1957 at the age of 49, while on a diamond-mining expedition in Venezuela"
He wrote:
A wanderer till I die [1937] very rare
An article on National Geographic magazine - September 1938
Among the big knot lois of Hainan: wild tribesmen with topknots roam the little-known interior of this big and strategically important island in the china sea [1938]
The Rivers ran east [1953]... - translated in italian by Garzanti...
The marching wind [c1955]...
Yucatan adventure [1959]...
Alle sorgenti del fiume giallo [1996 ] italian edition...
I hope I've found something interesting for all!
Rating: 3
Summary: A little poetic license...
Comment: Having lived in the Amazon valley (Santa Isabel do Rio Negro, on the upper Rio Negro just south of the equator, and also on the Amazon near Manaus), for ten years, I find much of the book amusing. It is inconceivable that Clark is the only explorer that ran into more horrifying Indians, more snakes and other jungle creature out to get him than any other who had gone before him.
For example, Clark wasn't fond of swimming in the river because there were crocs on every shore, and flesh eating fish at every depth. Explorer Adrian Cowell (The Heart of the Forest), found nothing like this in all his travels and even snorkeled at the Xingu tribe he stayed with. Earlier, Earl Hanson in Journey to Manaos found most of the Indians quite curious. My sister has worked with tribal Indians in Brazil for 35 years and has never reported such savagery. The Indians are known for killing, but usually out of fear - not because they are simply mean.
Loren McIntyre paints a totally different picture of the Amazon and its people in Amazonia (Sierra Club). Don't forget Teddy Roosevelt. He had a great time on the Amazon. And finally, Alfred Wallace's Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro (1889), talks of Indians and fauna, but never had the problems Clark had.
It is my guess that Clark, knowing no one would be able to confirm or deny his wild tales, took poetic license and created a story that is a great read, but simply not totally factual. It is his vivid imagination that makes the journey even more exciting - but I was disappointed because I thought I was going to read a nice historical account of his travels and instead caught myself laughing to myself in disbelief.
I suppose I could be wrong. I've never been to the Amazon in the Peruvian headwaters. Life may be quite different there than the rest of the basin.
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Title: The Marching Wind by Leonard Clark ISBN: 1590480600 Publisher: The Long Riders' Guild Press Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon by William Lewis Herndon, Gary Kinder, Lardner Gibbon, United States Navy Dept ISBN: 0802137040 Publisher: Grove Press Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Searching for El Dorado : A Journey into the South American Rainforest on the Tail of the World's LargestGold Rush by Marc Herman ISBN: 0385502524 Publisher: Nan A. Talese Pub. Date: 18 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Brazilian Adventure by Peter Fleming ISBN: 081016065X Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.16 |
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Title: The Machu Picchu Guidebook: A Self-Guided Tour by Ruth M. Wright, Alfredo Valencia Zegarra ISBN: 1555663079 Publisher: Johnson Books Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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