num_pages: 238
description: Refugees are sometimes desperate people. When the author who was job-hunting in Rio de Janiero was offered a chance to accompany a bird hunting expedition into the Matto Grosso he jumped at the chance. For Waclaw Korabiewicz the expedition held no terrors - he was used to living on his wits in the open air and had once paddled a canoe from Warsaw to India.In this book he relates the story of three men in the heart of the Pantanal. He tells of the perils of living in South America's wildest jungles populated by savage animals where even the rivers are teeming with flesh eating piranhas.
language: English
title: Matto Grosso
publisher: The Travel Book Club