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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. It is hard enough to believe the stories, but the awful writing makes it worse. > Even La Torre had been a walk in the park compared to this. Maybe it was the endless swamp, or proximity to lakes. Whatever it was, the teeming hordes of bloodsucking insects, and their ever-present drone, only increased the fear-inducing repulsiveness of the jungle labyrinth that would not release me. > Together again, we continued what we had started months earlier, engulfed in the mysterious magnetism between us—which the months and thousands of miles between us had failed to break. After we were reunited, our adventures only escalated and took on an almost cinematic grandeur—climbing the orange boulders of Karnataka, exploring the green jungles in Kerala, nights by the Bay of Bengal. The writing isn't all this bad, but enough is. I'm not sure if the writing got worse through the book, or if my tolerance just fell, but by the end I was getting pretty tired of it. Still, I enjoyed a lot of the stories. Mother of God is about a young man from the suburbs of New Jersey who follows his dream to be a naturalist and conservationist. Steve Irwin was his childhood hero. Most of the book takes place in the Western Amazon, in Peru, where he works at a eco-lodge as a guide. His dream is to work to preserve the forests from development and poachers and to communicate to the world the beauty of life in the Amazon. To this end he wrote this book, helps run an institute in the jungle, and is working on a film. Rosolie has a lot of adventures and really at times I found him to be romantic in his descriptions, as well as reckless in the way Steve Irwin would jump on the backs of whatever mega-fauna he saw, including anaconda as big around as an oil barrel. But he does impart a sense of the jungle in a way that is accessible and vivid. Rosolie is no Irwin, he is still discovering his voice, but I feel as strongly as he does about preserving the wild places of the world. We will be hearing more from Rosolie in the future, if he lives, I will be following what he does. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
For fans of The Lost City of Z, Walking the Amazon, and Turn Right at Machu Picchu comes naturalist and explorer Paul Rosolie's extraordinary adventure in the uncharted tributaries of the Western Amazon-a tale of discovery that vividly captures the awe, beauty, and isolation of this endangered land and presents an impassioned call to save it.In the Madre de Dios-Mother of God-region of Peru, where the Amazon River begins its massive flow, the Andean Mountain cloud forests fall into lowland Amazon Rainforest, creating the most biodiversity-rich place on the planet. In January 2006, when he was just a restless eighteen-year-old hungry for adventure, Paul Rosolie embarked on a journey to the west Amazon that would transform his life.Venturing alone into some of the most inaccessible reaches of the jungle, he encountered giant snakes, floating forests, isolated tribes untouched by outsiders, prowling jaguars, orphaned baby anteaters, poachers in the black market trade in endangered species, and much more. Yet today, the primordial forests of the Madre de Dios are in danger from developers, oil giants, and gold miners eager to exploit its natural resources.In Mother of God, this explorer and conservationist relives his amazing odyssey exploring the heart of this wildest place on earth. When he began delving deeper in his search for the secret Eden, spending extended periods in isolated solitude, he found things he never imagined could exist. "Alone and miniscule against a titanic landscape I have seen the depths of the Amazon, the guts of the jungle where no men go, Rosolie writes. "But as the legendary explorer Percy Fawcett warned, 'the few remaining unknown places of the world exact a price for their secrets.'". No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I can't stress enough how much this book means to me. It's a depiction of a life I've dreamed of for so long. I really think I should become a Paul Rosolie, a jungle keeper. ( )