Hardcover edition. The story of the Zaire River Expedition, 1974-1975. b&w photos, drawings, maps throughout.

A giant among rivers: The story of the Zaire River Expedition 1974-75

Travel

Snailham, Richard

Africa

Hutchinson

Sangay Survived: The Story of the Ecuador Volcano Disaster

Sangay survived: The story of the Ecuador volcano disaster

The Blue Nile revealed: The story of the Great Abbai Expedition, 1968

Chatto&Windus

<p>The mythical land of Great Paititi, east of the Andes, attracted conquistadors, archaeologists, adventurers and even, more recently, Nazis fleeing justice. John Blashford-Snell has always felt the lure of lost cities and in particular of Paititi, the city the Spanish conquistadors called El Dorado. In May 2001, he set off through dense rainforest with a full team of jungle-bashers, archaeologists, soldiers and scientists to reach the area where the dangerously snake-infested ruins were believed to be. What they found was not a city but what seemed to be an ancient centre for ritual.;The success of two earlier expeditions, Kota Mama I and II, had shown that ancient peoples could have sailed boats made of reed from Lake Titicaca southwards and eastwards to the Atlantic. Now Blashford-Snell set off to prove that the ancient peoples of Paititi could have used the long succession of ever-widening rivers that end at the mouth of the Amazon as trade routes to the Old World. Kota Mama III, a reed trimaran, with three jaguar figureheads, faced a frightening 500 kilometres of rapids to prove the point.This account of a hair-raising journey through the little-known heart of South America is in the tradition of the best adventurous travel.</p>

East to the Amazon: In Search of Great Paititi and the Trade Routes of the Ancients

Blashford-Snell, John

John Murray Pubs Ltd

<p>An account of an adventure which provided evidence that South Americans could have had trading contacts with Africa 1000 BC, using reed boats to navigate their way across the Atlantic. This is a recreation of that epic journey, uncovering many archaeological sites along the way.</p>

Kota Mama

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Headline Book Pub Ltd

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