Books: Road to Nowhere

MAN HUNTING IN THE JUNGLE—G. M. Dyott—Bobbs Merrill ($5).

Why is an explorer? They give various excuses for their wanderings. When Explorer P. H. Fawcett, with his son Jack and Raleigh Rimell, trekked into the Xingu (pronounced: Shengoo) country of Brazil in 1925, they intended to investigate rumored traces of a lost civilization. When they had not returned nearly three years later, a search party was sent out under Explorer G. M. Dyott. With him went four inexperienced white men. In Cuyaba, last outpost of civilized Brazil, they picked up five camerados (porters)....

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