One of the world's most provocative young writers and filmmakers tells the extraordinary story of Loren McIntyre's discovery of the Amazon's source high in the Andes--and his kidnapping by a tribe of Mayoruna "cat people". A thrilling adventure in every sense, Amazon Beaming details a mindbending journey into the geographical--and spiritual--unknown. Full-color photographs.
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'[Petru Popescu] gives McIntyre's story the narrative drive of a thriller' Sunday Telegraph
'Eye-popping account' Daily Mail
'Blazing tale of mysticism and acculturation' Financial Times
'As powerful and mystical as any ancient epic... Travel writing in a class of its own: Heart of Darkness meets Walden' The Lady
'Strange and wonderful... Fascinating reading... A sort of Castaneda exercise in mystical and ecological inquiry' Kirkus Reviews
'An extraordinary, gripping tale' Publishers Weekly
'A fascinating tale of ethical and spiritual dilemmas' Wanderlust
Praise for Complicite's stage production:
'A tour de force that shows contemporary theatre at its most immersive and thought provoking' Financial Times
'Spellbinding' Telegraph
'An unforgettably brilliant work of total theatre' Herald
'So astonishing and inventive is this show that it feels like we're witnessing a real turning point in theatre, a performance that will be looked back on in years to come as hugely influential'
--The ListBorn in Bucharest in 1944, Petru Popescu was Communist Romania's most provocative young novelist, before he was forced to defect and start writing in English. His Romanian novels Captured and Burial of the Vine are classics of the resistance against totalitarian art.
Moving to the United States, he wrote movies including The Last Wave and Death of an Angel, before returning full time to fiction. The Encounter: Amazon Beaming, Almost Adam, The Return, and The Oasis made him known worldwide. In The Encounter, the theme of exploring and winning one s freedom within oneself makes an unforgettable character from the discoverer of the Amazon s source, Loren McIntyre. Undoubtedly, freedom is Popescu's signature motif. Popescu is married to screenplay writer Iris Friedman, and they live in Los Angeles.
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