Across the River of Death: True Adventure In the Green Hell of the Amazon

by Jorgen Bisch

Published in 1958, Bisch starts the story with a torturous experience - that of obtaining travel documents in Rio. Department after department, the military, certificate for this, endorsement for that, bribe for that. Even with his embassy assistant to help, and some quick forgery of location at the end this was a good start to the real adventure. With papers now in hand he had to plead with the military to join a flight to a remote airfield. From there, he heads up-river - the Rio das Mortes - The River of Death.



airfield
Amazon
anaconda
Atahualpa
attack
Aucas
Awattis
beautiful
bird-spider
boat
Brandenstein
Brazil
Brazilian
cameras
canoe
Chaukomi
chicha
civilisation
clay
Colorado Indians
colour
course
Cuzco
dance
dangerous
Danish
dead
eat
Ecuador
enormous
expedition
Fawcett
feathers
feet
festival
film
fish
forest
girl
gold
guests
Gunnar Knudsen
hair
hammock
hand
happened
head
head-hunters
Huayna Capac
hundred
hut
Ilinizza
Inca
inhabitants
Jaon
jivaria
Jivaro Indians
Jivaros
jungle
Kajapo
Lake Titicaca
land
live
look
Macas
Macchu Picchu
Maimai
Manaos
manioc
Matto Grosso
mestizo
miles
morning
mountain
mummy
murder
never
night
one's
Pedro
perhaps
Peru
pirañas
plane
poisoned
poles
primitive
realised
Rio das Mortes
River of Death
round
rubber
run
Sangai
sat
señor
snake
soon
sort
Spaniards
Spanish
stone
stood
strange
suddenly
sun
Tapirape Indians
things
thought
Tiahuanaco
town
trees
try
tsantsa
village
Viracocha
walls
White
women
young