I got it years ago from a local museum that was giving away old books (I took it because the cover was pretty) and it has since become one of my favourite books. According to the author himself, anyway, it's a true story about his exploration of the Amazonia in search of the city of El Dorado, written based on his journal entries. It also includes some pretty neat b&w photographs.
The detail in which he describes the landscape and all the people and animals he encounters is astonishing but IMO the book doesn't feel too info-heavy, and reads more like a traditional adventure story, but better.
Obviously some of Clark's ideas and actions might seem a bit questionable, but you have to take the book as a product of its time, as it was published in 1952.
Now, I've yet to encounter anyone else who would've read or even heard of this book, so I was wondering if any of you guys have read it. I feel like it's (cliché alert) extremely underrated.
(It has some pretty heavy and gnarly stuff in it though, so proceed with caution. It's crazy the Clark even lived to write the whole book in the first place.)
by shrek_hee_hees