Lost city of the Amazon

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  • Published 20080603
  • ISBN: 9780733322822
  • Extent: 288 pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm)

In every book I ever read
Of travels on the Equator
A plague mysterious and dread
Imperils the narrator

– Hillaire Belloc

 

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