A journalist and adventurer, Peter Fleming sets off for Brazil on a 3,000-mile quest through the Amazon in a celebrated search for a missing English colonel in this classic and very entertaining account, first published in 1933. Only a British explorer, albeit unintentionally, could be as ill-prepared and deadpan about such an adventure. He never did find Fawcett.  (AMZ55, $16.95)

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