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BRAZILIAN ADVENTUREPeter Fleming Scribner ($2.75). The tales of returned explorers range in tone all the way from the symphonies of Charles Montagu Doughty to the popular ditties of Richard Halliburton, but invariably they harmonize on taking their travels seriously. Against this impressive but monotonous harmony Explorer-Author Fleming raises a delightfully discordant note. In spite of all temptation to add a glamorous paragraph to adventure's annals he remains the up-to-date young Englishman, telling of his hairbreadth adventurings in the jungles of Brazil as a harebrained joke. Though he takes his stand as...
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