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Product Identifiers

PublisherBig Sky Publishing Pty, The Limited

ISBN-101921941421

ISBN-139781921941429

eBay Product ID (ePID)211998303

Product Key Features

Book TitleLonesome George : a South American Odyssey

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicPersonal Memoirs, General, Essays & Travelogues

Publication Year2015

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorJorge Sotirios

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height2.1 in

Item Weight19.9 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal918.04

SynopsisLonesome George is a comic odyssey that combines travel adventure and comedy in a journey of epic proportions. Author Jorge Sotirios illuminates the beauty of the South American landscape, interweaving its history, culture and people, in his mock heroic quest. Beginning with the writer lured to South American by an Argentine beauty, his journey commences across the equator, through the Amazon jungle and climaxes in the austere Galapagos Islands. Incorporating angels in Argentina to sham Peruvian shaman. From Amazombies appearing on midnight boats, to visiting the lost city of Fordlandia. Accompanying ecowarriors to far -flung villages where jaguars roam, the writer ultimately finds the site of the legendary Amazon warrior women, gliding over the Mirror of the Moon Lake where everything is doubled. The alluring pink dolphin in the Amazon River, said to charm whoever encounters it, is a constant presence. Missionaries and Tarzans coexist with the cult of Che Guevara, with serious topics such as oil exploitation, deforestation and drought. Lonesome George is South America as seen from street and river level and a life- affirming portrayal of people and human emotion as Sotirios' confronts his doppelganger, "Lonesome George", the last surviving tortoise of his species., Lonesome George is a comic odyssey that combines traveladventure and comedy in a journey of epic proportions.Author Jorge Sotirios illuminates the beauty of the SouthAmerican landscape, interweaving its history, culture andpeople, in his mock heroic quest. Beginning with thewriter lured to South American by an Argentine beauty,his journey commences across the equator, through theAmazon jungle and climaxes in the austere GalapagosIslands. Incorporating angels in Argentina to shamPeruvian shaman. From Amazombies appearing on midnightboats, to visiting the lost city of Fordlandia.Accompanying ecowarriors to far -flung villages wherejaguars roam, the writer ultimately finds the site of thelegendary Amazon warrior women, gliding over the Mirrorof the Moon Lake where everything is doubled. Thealluring pink dolphin in the Amazon River, said to charmwhoever encounters it, is a constant presence.Missionaries and Tarzans coexist with the cult of CheGuevara, with serious topics such as oil exploitation,deforestation and drought. Lonesome George is SouthAmerica as seen from street and river level and a life-affirming portrayal of people and human emotion asSotirios' confronts his doppelganger, "Lonesome George",the last surviving tortoise of his species., Lonesome George is a comic odyssey that combines travel adventure and comedy in a journey of epic proportions. Illustrates the beauty of the South American landscape, interweaving its history, culture and people , in his mock heroic quest.