IN SOUTHERN LIGHT: Trekking Through Zaire and the Amazon. by…

IN SOUTHERN LIGHT: Trekking Through Zaire and the Amazon. by Shoumatoff, Alex, < >

IN SOUTHERN LIGHT: Trekking Through Zaire and the Amazon.

Edition: First printing.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1988.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of two excursions in tropical rain forests by a journalist who is described as 'part biologist, part linguist, part anthropologist, ...who is fascinated by other ways of living..'. In the first section he describes his ascent of the Nhamunda river, a little-known, but long, tributary of the Amazon; in the second part he explores Zaire in Africa, trekking into the heart of the Ituri forest, the land of the BaMbuti and Efi pygmies. Cover praise from Russell Banks and Tracy Kidder. Index. 239 pp. ISBN: 0-671494414.

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

Book ID: 41157
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