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Westoll, Andrew.
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Westoll, Andrew -- Travel -- Suriname.
Natural history -- Suriname.
Human geography -- Suriname.
Jungle ecology -- Suriname.
Suriname -- Description and travel.
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Westoll, Andrew.
Westoll, Andrew -- Travel -- Suriname.
Natural history -- Suriname.
Human geography -- Suriname.
Jungle ecology -- Suriname.
Suriname -- Description and travel.
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The riverbones : stumbling after Eden in the jungles of
Suriname
/ Andrew Westoll.
by
Westoll, Andrew.
Emblem, c2008.
Call #:
918.8304 W534r
Subjects
Westoll, Andrew
--
Travel
--
Suriname
.
Natural history
--
Suriname
.
Human geography
--
Suriname
.
Jungle
ecology
--
Suriname
.
Suriname
--
Description and travel.
ISBN:
9780771088759 (pbk.)
9780771088766 (trade pbk.)
Alternate title:
River bones
Description:
365 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"A young man uncovers myth, history, and murder while searching for the soul of an unknown and magical place. Andrew Westoll spent a year living the dream of every aspiring primatologist: following wild troops of capuchin monkeys through the remote Central
Suriname
Nature Reserve, the largest tract of pristine rainforest left on earth. But that was only the beginning. Westoll left the world of science altogether when he departed
Suriname
six years ago. But the country itself stayed with him and became a strange obsession. Nestled above Brazil and the Upper Amazon Basin,
Suriname
has a legitimate claim to the title The Last Eden, as ninety percent of this mysterious country is covered in thick, neo-tropical
jungle
. Westoll read everything he could find about the old Dutch colony — wild stories about secretive Amazonian shamans, superstitious tribes of ex-African slaves, outlaw Brazilian gold-miners, a ghostly lake with the dead canopy of a drowned rainforest at its surface, and an unsolved political murder mystery that continues to haunt the nation. Five years passed, and Westoll yearned to return to the rainforest. Then the opportunity finally arose. Westoll didn’t think twice — he immediately quit his job, gave away most of his possessions, and kissed the love of his life goodbye. For the next five months, he explored the most surreal country in South America for a glimpse of its quintessential soul. He struggled up dark neo-tropical rivers, immersed himself in Surinamese Maroon culture, and met a cast of characters whose eccentricities perfectly mirrored the strangeness of their land. Westoll maps the natural and human geography of this exotic land while hunting for closure to his strange obsession with it. In the end, he tells a spellbinding story of survival, heartbreak, mystery, and murder."--From the publisher.
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