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The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes ReviewThis book is amazing. Once I picked it up I could hardly put it down. It is a vivid account of a hair-raising, death-defying, real life adventure. That alone would be enough for a great read, but this book is so much more. It is also a record of the current conditions of the flora and fauna of the most dangerous, most inaccessible parts of the Amazon and the tribes who live among them. And it is a thoughtful contemplation of where indigenous tribes and unexploited wilderness fit in the modern world, including the challenges of assimilation or its opposite, total isolation and non-contact. This is a book that really made me think.
Scott Wallace spent three months - the entire summer of 2002 -- with the brilliant, dictatorial, obsessive Sydney Possuelo and his highly diverse band of Indians and whites as they traveled by riverboat, by canoe, and on foot through parts of the Amazon that are off-limits to all but indigenous peoples and a handful of government officials. The expedition's objective was to gather information while getting as close as possible to the Arrow People, an uncontacted tribe known for its effective use of curare-poisoned arrows, without running into them or being killed by them.
Over the course of the expedition and the book, Wallace gets to know the 34 men who made the expedition under Possuelo's iron-fisted leadership. Most impressive is Valdeci Rios, called Soldado (the soldier), whose backwoods expertise, superhuman strength, and wide-ranging abilities in the face of every challenge will make your jaw drop. Soldado is eventually laid low for a time by malaria, but his response to this gruesome disease adds to the reader's sense that he is a man who can overcome all obstacles. As a group, the other members of the expedition are also astonishing. At the end of each day of exhausting trekking, they not only hunt for the group's food but also transform a plain forested area into an elaborate campsite equipped with stairs with handrails, cooking and cleaning areas, individual covered hammock sites, and surfaces for tables and seating. Their efforts seem herculean given that each campsite is used for one night only and all their work must be repeated every twenty-four hours.
Scott Wallace will have you on the edge of your seat with concern for him and the other members of the expedition as they bathe in piranha and caiman-infested waters, scramble over slick logs high above raging rivers, hike through thick bamboo groves and skyscraper-tall trees, while tripping on hanging vines and rodent-burrows. They are not accompanied by a doctor or other medical staff nor are they in touch with anyone who can assist them should they be injured or fall ill. The forest is populated with all manner of things that seem bent on killing or maiming the men: stinging ants, hairy spiders, poisonous snakes, stealthy jaguars, and more. The dangers that the expedition must avoid include the subject of their study - the Arrow People - a tribe they are working to support and even save. There is no false drama here. All the threats are real and vividly recounted.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who has an interest in (1) true adventure, (2) the Amazon, (3) indigenous peoples, (4) untrammeled wilderness, (5) environmental challenges, or (6) what it takes to get a story and photographs for National Geographic magazine. This book is especially important because it is a record of a rare expedition into the deepest, most inaccessible parts of the Amazon written by an unusually humble, thoughtful, and experienced writer. Wallace's book is painful, magnificent, profound and not to be missed.
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