Where I find my inspiration

[selunatic2397]

Neat! someone told me that, if left alone to live and grow, rattlesnakes could grow to up to 10 feet long...even so, that anaconda would have it for lunch!

Thanks for sharing!

 

[SpaceBadger]

Another good book for inspiration is Exploration Fawcett, by Lt. Col. Percy H. Fawcett, giving an account of his various expeditions into the Amazon region at the borders of Brazil and Bolivia, where he was in charge of surveying the border. He disappeared in the Amazon region in 1925, and has not been accounted for as yet. The book is fascinating reading of what was then the frontier of both countries in the exploitation of the rubber trade.

Darn, they have it on Amazon but not on Gutenberg. Also found it apparently republished under the title "Lost Trails, Lost Cities" on openlibrary.org, but have not yet navigated their registration process to enable "borrowing" it there.

 

[Timerover51]

Darn, they have it on Amazon but not on Gutenberg. Also found it apparently republished under the title "Lost Trails, Lost Cities" on openlibrary.org, but have not yet navigated their registration process to enable "borrowing" it there.

The copyright has to be a big headache, as his son published the notes of his father in 1953, but put the copyright under his father's name. As his father presumably died in 1925, I am not sure if such a copyright assignment would be recognized.

Also, based on going through the book, he may have had contact with the Sundance Kid, a.k.a. Harry Longabaughm while in Bolivia, possibly after he was supposed to have been shot along with Butch Cassidy by the Bolivians. Quite the interesting book. Great for jungle travel and lost civilizations, along with corrupt officials, frontier areas, and of course, contacts with savages.