The Cloud Forest: A Vivid Journey Into One of the Unknown Regions of the World

Once the source of vanished civilizations, great tracts of the South American continent remain largely unexplored. Its wilderness and plains harbor fabled ruins, primitive tribes, animals and plants of untold value and variety,

Seeking adventure from the Amazon to Tierra del Fuego, author naturalist Peter Matthiessen plunged into the heart of this last vast wilderness in search of the unknown. Hazarding daily perils along treacherous rivers, surrounded by strange and deadly creatures and insects, he explored jungles whose native tribes remain living in evocations of centuries past. This engrossing journal captures the sights, sounds, smells and very spirit of the mysterious lands he traversed.