The River of Seven Stars: Searching for the White Indians on the Orinoco | 
 enlarge | Author: Arthur Friel
Publisher: Narrative Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 3095511
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 476
ISBN: 1589762703
Dewey Decimal Number: 910
EAN: 9781589762701
ASIN: 1589762703
Publication Date: December 30, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
Arthur Friel, relentlessly curious, funded his own mission to find the white Indians of Venezuela. Along the way, he dealt with the severe tropical heat and humidity, diseases like yellow fever and beri-beri, and assorted vicious and deadly creatures packed so densely that they just about trip over each other--giant anacondas, jaguars, leaping spiders, fire ants, snakes of every description, and poisonous centipedes. Then, also, there were the Mayorunas, cannibals and headhunters who occasionally poison the streams because of "real or imaginary enemies." Friel found the white Indians, but they were not what he expected. He made it home and became one of the most popular writers for Adventure magazine during the 1920s and 1930s.
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