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An Amazon and a Donkey

Natascha Scott-Stokes

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'Don't go,' warned the military attache in Lima/Peru when he heard the diminutive young traveller's intention to follow the Amazon from its headwaters in the Andes all the way to the Atlantic Sea off Brazil. Even in peaceful times it was an extraordinary plan: no woman had ever made such a trip alone. And now, in 1989, there was the added danger of Andean terrorist guerillas, the Senderos, who had recently targeted gringos in order to sabotage Peru's tourist industry. But Natascha had spent ten years preparing for her journey and was not about to give up. She declined an armed guard, figuring it would make her even more of a target, and set off into the mountains with just her donkey for company.

Once in the Amazon lowlands, she sold her donkey and continued for two more months by a curious variety of rivercraft, staying with missionaries, local settlers and finally with a community of Bora Indians - discovering that tenuous no-man's land which lies between traditional cultures and the encroaching 21st century.

She survived falling in love, illness and extreme mental and physical challenge to tell a thrilling tale of timeless fascination.

Language: English

Pages: 249

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Century

Release: May 12, 1991

ISBN: 0712634525

ISBN 13: 9780712634526

An Amazon and a Donkey

Natascha Scott-Stokes

3.5/5 ( ratings)

'Don't go,' warned the military attache in Lima/Peru when he heard the diminutive young traveller's intention to follow the Amazon from its headwaters in the Andes all the way to the Atlantic Sea off Brazil. Even in peaceful times it was an extraordinary plan: no woman had ever made such a trip alone. And now, in 1989, there was the added danger of Andean terrorist guerillas, the Senderos, who had recently targeted gringos in order to sabotage Peru's tourist industry. But Natascha had spent ten years preparing for her journey and was not about to give up. She declined an armed guard, figuring it would make her even more of a target, and set off into the mountains with just her donkey for company.

Once in the Amazon lowlands, she sold her donkey and continued for two more months by a curious variety of rivercraft, staying with missionaries, local settlers and finally with a community of Bora Indians - discovering that tenuous no-man's land which lies between traditional cultures and the encroaching 21st century.

She survived falling in love, illness and extreme mental and physical challenge to tell a thrilling tale of timeless fascination.

Language: English

Pages: 249

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Century

Release: May 12, 1991

ISBN: 0712634525

ISBN 13: 9780712634526

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