Recently I've been trying to find some time to read something else than French classics. A friend of mine told me about a book called "Zielone piekło". It is based on a notebook of Raymond Maufrais - a man who had decided to go to Brazil to discover American Indian tribes in Mato Grosso when he was 19. Three years later he set off on a lonely journey through Guyana jungle and he never came back from it. He left his camp and notes on the banks of Tamouri river and that's how we know what was happening to him before his disappearance.
Raymond Maufrais was born in 1926 in Toulon, France. In 1946 he decided to go to Rio de Janeiro where one evening he bet one of his friends that he'll go to the unexplored area of central Brazil. With a lot of luck and help, he achieved his goal. He made notes throughout this journey; he described the ups and downs, the people he met - the prospectors of gold who spends their lifetimes hoping to find yellow glint in the bottom of their pan, a lot of people of questionable morals.
His next journey was supposed to end in the city of Belem but Raymond never got there. When he was leaving, his father promised him that if he's not back in 6 month, he'll look him. After finding out that his son is indeed missing, Edgar Maufrais did everything he could to find him. He traversed Amazon looking for the smallest trace of a white man, unfortunately in vain.
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