Title: The last great journey on earth.
Authors: Branston, Brian, 1914-1993.
Publisher: Weybright and Talley
Year: 1971
Subjects: Amazon River Description and travel.; Orinoco River (Venezuela and Colombia) Description and travel.; Amazon River Valley Description and travel.
Abstract: The author vividly recalls the perils and struggles of his two-thousand-mile journey up the Amazon tributary Rio Negro.
Contents: The start of the adventure -- Bedding down-interlude for death -- Lost -- Taparucuara -- The first rapids -- Intrigue at Wapes-interlude for mystery -- Venezuela and Spanish gold -- The secrets of San Carlos -- San Carlos: journalists and a fort -- Casiquiare canal -- Tama Tama and curare -- A bit of a bust up -- Journey to the Waika: new tribes misssionaries -- Journey to the Waika:the rapids -- Journey to the Waika: beyond the waterfall -- Journey to the Waika: the yopo tree-interlude to inquire into the fate of the Amazon women -- Arthur Helliwell's chest -- Dicing with death-Envoi.