Iquitos 1910: Roger Casement and Alfred Russel Wallace on the Amazon

by William Bryant

Iquitos 1910 is based on the underground gay classic--Roger Casement's description in his own of his voyage of investigation in the Putumayo region of the Amazon, with related passages on Alfred Russel Wallace who explored the same region in the mid 19th century. Memo Strozzi, aspiring writer and amateur entomologist, travels in the Amazon in search of Casement and Wallace, reaching Iquitos and later Tabatinga in Colombia where he is captured and gang raped by FARC guerrillas. Later, escaping, he makes his way up the Putumayo where he visits the old rubber stations. Iquitos 1910 also contains the Memo's secret diaries, much like Casement's in tone. This is a book of personal exploration, natural history, travel, eroticism and literary fun.

248 pages, Paperback

First published May 22, 2003

About the author

William Bryant has lived and worked in the Middle East since before the Gulf War, in assignments with Saudi Medical Services, the Saudi navy and in the oil industry. He has written biographies of Roger Casement and Alfred Russel Wallace and Ross, a novel, parts of which appeared in Evergreen Review.