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Publishers WeeklyNational Geographic writer Wallace recounts his grueling odyssey into the remotest stretches of the Amazon Basin as he tracks down the "Arrow People," one of the last "uncontacted" tribes left in the world. Wallace's 34-member expedition was led by Sydney Possuelo, a legendary sertanista (a Brazilian hybrid of woodsman, explorer, and anthropologist). On the three-month trek by riverboat, canoe, and foot, the expedition was threatened by pumas, starvation, disease, hostile natives, and tensions that develop between men in close quarters. The mercurial Possuelo's mission seems paradoxicalhe wants to clearly identify the "Arrow People," but only so that in the future they will be left completely alone. The book is overlong, and in the early chapters, Wallace tends to repeat grand pronouncements about culture, history, and the environment.
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Scott Wallace is a bestselling author and veteran journalist who covers armed conflict, the environment, and vanishing cultures from around the world. His assignments have taken him from clandestine arms bazaars in post-Soviet Russia to midnight raids on fedayeen hideouts in the slums of Baghdad, and from combat operations in the Nicaraguan jungles to shepherd camps high in the windswept Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan. A former correspondent for CBS News, Newsweek, and the Guardian, Scott is a frequent contributor to National Geographic Magazine and has undertaken six major assignments for the National Geographic Society to the Amazon rainforest. His writings have also appeared in Smithsonian, Harper's, National Geographic Adventure, National Geographic Traveler, Smithsonian Journeys Quarterly, the Village Voice, and Sports Afield. His photography is represented by Getty Images and has been featured in National Geographic Traveler, Smithsonian, and Outside, among many others. His television producing credits include CBS News, CNN, and National Geographic Channel. He is the recipient of the Explorers Club's prestigious Lowell Thomas Award for excellence in reporting from the field. He has three sons and splits his time between Washington, DC. and Colorado.
