Brazilian Adventure
Peter Fleming
Northwestern University Press
<span><i>"Beyond the 
completion of a 3,000-mile journey, mostly under amusing conditions, 
through a little-known part of the world, and the discovery of one new 
tributary to a tributary to a tributary of the Amazon, nothing of 
importance was achieved."</i><br><br>Nothing indeed. In 1932, Peter 
Fleming, a literary editor, traded his pen for a pistol and took off as 
part of the celebrated search for missing English explorer Colonel P.H. 
Fawcett. With meager supplies, faulty maps, and packs of rival 
newspapermen on their trail, Fleming and his companions marched, canoed,
 and hacked through 3,000 miles of wilderness and alligator-ridden 
rivers in search of the fate of the lost explorer. One of the great 
adventure stories, <i>Brazilian Adventure</i> is as fresh a story today as it was when originally published in 1933.</span>