In Trouble Again: A Journey Between Orinoco and the Amazon

by Redmond O'Hanlon

Overview

O'Hanlon takes us into the bug-ridden rain forest between the Orinoco and the Amazon—infested with jaguars and piranhas, where men would kill over a bottle of ketchup and where the locals may be the most violent people on earth (next to hockey fans).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780679727149
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	04/14/1990
Series:	Vintage Departures
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.22(w) x 7.93(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

A fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Society of Literature, Redmond O'Hanlon was the natural history editor of The Times Literary Supplement for fifteen years. He lives near Oxford, England, with his wife and their two children. "Among contemporary travel writers," according to the Washington Post, "he has the best nose for the globe's precious few remaining blank spots . . . Long may he trudge and paddle."

Editorial Reviews

The friend who accompanied O'Hanlon on an earlier, two-month expedition flatly refused to go with him on a four-month journey to Venezuelan Amazonia. Everyone who read Into the Heart of Borneo can sympathize, as O'Hanlon's approach to travel borders on the lunatic. He persuaded Simon Stockton to join him, but Stockton quit the expedition when he ran out of reading material and, anyway, he didn't like the jungle. O'Hanlon pressed on with a Colombian scientist and an Indian crew, on uncharted rivers in a dugout canoe. He wanted to push a little farther than the 19th century explorers von Humboldt and Bonplan, and to meet the Yanomami tribe, reputedly the most violent people on earth. O'Hanlon survived the expected hazardspoisonous snakes, caiman crocodiles, piranhas, the toothpick fish and even the potent yoppo (a narcotic) used in Yanomami rites. As an expert naturalist, his descriptions of landscape and animals are superb. His humor is frequently scatological. But he holds our attention throughout. Photos. First serial to Interview. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

O'Hanlon is the natural history editor of The Times literary supplement. This is an informative and amusing account of his four- month expedition. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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