- Gebundene Ausgabe: 272 Seiten
- Verlag: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press (Januar 1989)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0871132494
- ISBN-13: 978-0871132499
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,1 x 15 x 2,8 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.4 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (7 Kundenrezensionen)
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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 copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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Having spent two months travelling in the primary rain forests of Borneo, a four-month journey in the country between the Orinoco and the Amazon would pose, I thought, no particular problem. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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Having spent two months travelling in the primary rain forests of Borneo, a four-month journey in the country between the Orinoco and the Amazon would pose, I thought, no particular problem. Lesen Sie die erste Seite
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In the first half of this book, with the constantly hillarious Simon as a foil, Hanlon is hilarious. Through Simon's eyes and comments the reader can see the hilarity and, oftentimes, insanity of Hanlon's quests. But once Simon bugs out, Hanlon loses his reality check. The reader sees only Halnon's relentlessly cheery description of a journey that can only be becoming more unpleasant. Without Simon along to tell how it really is -- bizarre, unpleasant, and often painful -- the book loses its edge and becomes a mostly tedious recitation of the birds and plants seen along the way. The first half of the book would, by itself merit four or five stars, but the dull ending drags it down to three.
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Redmond is, at heart, a gentle English Public School geek. This account of his river adventures in Venezuela "between the Orinoco and the Amazon" is made witty by his dry English humor. I particularly liked the thin thread of his dreams of being back as a child rowing on the River Avon with his father and discovering natural history there - an unexpected, but fitting, contrast to the overtly perilous and ungentle places he's visiting. He has a habit of checking out of the interpersonal conflict by describing the wildlife (esp. birds). Unlike Tim Flannery (in Throwim Way Leg), this is boringly written, confined mostly to physical descriptions and comparisons with the data in his 19th century guide books. He likes to dramatize, humorously, the danger in the adventure, though I wonder if this isn't really a cover for his lack of understanding of the people around him. I found the conflicts with Simon (his nightclub manager, cockney friend from "civilization") and the other guides most interesting. Also promising were the interactions with the Yanomami, though Redmond is nowhere near as perceptive or penetrating as Flannery is with the Papua New Guinea tribes. I came away from the book feeling that he might have missed the point of the people he was with and the Yanomami, but that he found a gentle, unassuming meaning for himself in the modest framework of his childhood.
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I enjoyed reading this book; it was well-written. I learned a lot too; the author gives detailed accounts of his adventures as well as the plant and animal life that he encounters. Humor is sprinkled throughout the book; there are some really funny parts. There are also some parts that will really gross you out. It's great! The only drawback is the ending. It ends rather abruptly. I still wonder if he ever made it back home or if only his notes made it!!!
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Perhaps he should have stayed home
Good travel writing is as hard to find as good places to travel. Mr. O'Hanlon does a thoroughly enjoyable job of describing his misadventures in the miserable, bug-infested Amazon... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. Dezember 1998 veröffentlicht
Amazonian lunacy: an exhausting must-read
Redmond O'Hanlon displays a tempered lunacy in his account of an extraordinary search for the infamously violent Yamamoni tribe. It all seems a little contrived at first. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 21. November 1997 veröffentlicht
Great book
Who needs wit when you're sucking the eyes out of a monkey's skull? O'Hanlon has plenty of wit for this story. Nothing disappointed me about this book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 17. Oktober 1997 veröffentlicht
Good Story
This book is a good story. Although Mr. O'Hanlon's wit does not live up to the publisher's hype, the book nonetheless has some good humor. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 24. Februar 1997 veröffentlicht
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