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In 1971, after years of searching, the photographer and writer Loren McIntyre flew deep into the Amazon interior to look for the source of the great river, and for the Mayoruna tribe. Never before contacted by the outside world, they were rumoured to be the only people who knew the true source of the Amazon. Lost in the jungle and kidnapped by the Mayoruna, McIntyre was at the mercy of the extraordinary war-painted "cat-people" with spines bristling out of their lips. He claims to have reached his goal by communicating telepathically with the tribe's head shaman. This is McIntyre's story, told by Petru Popescu, author of the novel and screenplay, "The Last Wave".
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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
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--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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- PublisherAbacus
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0349104530
- ISBN 13 9780349104539
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages402
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Book Description br.cop.fig. a col. Condition: NUOVO. In 1971, after years of searching, the photographer and writer Loren McIntyre flew deep into the Amazon interior to look for the source of the great river, and for the Mayoruna tribe. Never before contacted by the outside world, they were rumoured to be the only people who knew the true source of the Amazon. Lost in the jungle and kidnapped by the Mayoruna, McIntyre was at the mercy of the extraordinary war-painted cat-people with spines bristling out of their lips. He claims to have reached his goal by communicating telepathically with the tribe's head shaman. This is McIntyre's story, told by Petru Popescu, author of the novel and screenplay, The Last Wave. cm.12,5x20, pp.XIV,402, Coll.Travel. NOTA:Text in English. / London, Abacus, cm.12,5x20, pp.XIV,402, br.cop.fig. a col. Coll.Travel. Seller Inventory # 273743
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