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(More customer reviews)A wonderful book about the scientific experience, although the author promises not to write anything of scientific value. Humerous, astonishing, exciting, touching and gripping are some of the best words to describe this story of scientists on a 2 year quest to explore unknown regions of the Amazonian basin. I re-read it often. My father knew one of the original explorers and I am lucky enough to know who the un-named emminent scientists were which gives it an added edge of enjoyment.
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With a wicked eye for absurdities, Gordon MacCreagh recounts his adventures with eight "Eminent Scientificos" as they set out to explore the Amazon in 1923 without any idea of what lies ahead of them: rapids, malaria, monkey stew, and "dangerous savages." A combination of Twain's The Innocents Abroad and a cautionary tale for explorers, this is one of the most honest accounts ever written of a scientific expedition.
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