Paradise With Serpents: Travels in the Lost World of Paraguay. Robert Carver

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      ROBERT CARVER

       Paradise with Serpents

      TRAVELS IN THE LOST WORLD

      OF PARAGUAY

       Copyright

      William Collins

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

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      Published by Harper Perennial 2007

      Copyright © Robert Carver 2007

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      Source ISBN: 9780002570961

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       Praise

      From the reviews of The Accursed Mountains:

      ‘A memorable debut. Robert Carver has fulfilled the dream of every travel writer to find somewhere strange, remote and unvisited, and to pin it to the printed page. The Accursed Mountains is a tale at once endlessly diverting and profoundly tragic’

      WILLIAM DALRYMPLE

      ‘One of the most exciting travel books for a generation’

       Spectator

      ‘A classic’

      JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT, Books of the Year, Observer

      ‘A dazzling account of a journey – always bizarre, often comic, and increasingly nightmarish – through one of the most dangerous backwaters currently to be found anywhere’

      PETER HOPKIRK

      ‘A splendid account of a courageous journey’

      DERVLA MURPHY

      ‘Required reading’

      PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR

      ‘Enviable writing skills … fresh horrors on every page’

      JUSTIN WINTLE, The Times

      ‘A gripping account of Albania in the 1990s’

      JAMES OWEN, Daily Telegraph

       Dedication

       Dedicated toSt Antony of Padua

       Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes

       Epigraph

       Unhappy is the nation in need of heroes

      Bertolt Brecht

      Cada uno hace su propia aventura Everyone makes his own fortune

      Miguel Cervantes de Vedra

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       II PLOUGHING THE SEAS

       7 The Gigantic Province of the Indies

       8 MAMBFAK

       9 Piranha Soup

       10 Up River

       11 Smuggler’s Paradise

       III FLOWERING CANNON

       12 Rumble in the Jungle

       13 The Book of Complaint and Enticement

       14 Southern Exposure

      


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