The Unconquered : In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes (Hardcover)

from psherman

I really wanted to like it. I kept thinking that surely on the next page or two, something would happen. When I got to 50 pages from the end, having invested a lot of time in reading this dull account, I decided that if something was going to happen, it surely would have by then, so I quit readin...

from agnesmack

I received The Unconquered courtesy of the Goodreads First Reads program, and I will admit that I was immediately biased against it. The purpose of the expedition on which Scott Wallace tagged along is to locate 'lost savages'. Supposedly not to contact them, but as early as the Prologue, Mr. Wal...

from busterrll

More of a poor repetitive travelogue, than a serious book on indiigouis tribes

from debnance

It's all here in this book. Anacondas. Alligators. Poisonous plants. Stinging insects. Heat. Rain. And, best of all, a tribe of natives known only for their skill at shooting to kill with poison arrows and their ability to disappear into the rainforest. Scott Wallace stepped out of modern life fo...

from dk_phoenix

The premise of this piece of narrative non-fiction is a journalist from National Geographic goes on a journey down the Amazon with a renowned advocate for indigenous rights-they're looking for a tribe of uncontacted people known as the Arrow People, but they're looking for them to make sure that ...