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In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes
Crown
October 2011
On Sale: October 18, 2011
512 pages
ISBN: 030746296X
EAN: 9780307462961
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The Unconquered tells the extraordinary tale of a journey
into the deepest recesses of the Amazon to track one of the
planet's last uncontacted indigenous tribes. In this
gripping first-person account of adventure and survival, the
author follows a 34-man team into the Amazon's uncharted
depths, discovering the rainforest's secrets while moving
ever closer to a possible encounter with the mysterious
flecheiros - or "People of the Arrow" - a seldom-glimpsed
tribe of deft archers known to defend their lands with
showers of deadly arrows before melting back into the forest
shadows. While on assignment for National Geographic, author Scott
Wallace joined the brooding and charismatic explorer Sydney
Possuelo on a quixotic mission: penetrate the jungle
redoubts of the Arrow People, gather crucial information
about them, and return to civilization without contacting
the tribe. As head of Brazil's Department of Isolated
Indians, Possuelo seeks to protect the Arrow People and
their rainforest homeland from the ravages of the advancing
frontier. But the information he needs to safeguard them can
only be gleaned by entering a world of darkness and danger
beneath the forest canopy, to seek out the untamed tribesmen
while at the same time trying to avoid them. Drawing on lessons from anthropology and the Amazon's own
convulsed history, Wallace uncovers clues as to who the
Arrow People might be, how they have managed to endure as
one of the last unconquered tribes, why they seem to want to
have nothing to do with us, and why Possuelo fights so
passionately to see that their wishes are respected. In this
tale of high adventure and survival, we come to know the
unforgettable Possuelo as he wages an uphill battle, risking
his life to protect these mysterious people and the
species-rich rainforests on which they - and all of us - depend.
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