Photographer-heroine Rebel goes to the Amazon with her professor father to help him with his latest book about the Amazonian Indians. There she meets their handsome explorer-guide hero Luiz, who is going to help them out, give them info about the Amazon jungle, show them around.
This was a really fun jungle romance with a headstrong (and sometimes TSTL) heroine who is in constant need of rescue, headhunters, a jealous witch doctor, and much more!
By the end of ch. 2, I already disliked the obnoxious, immature, bad-tempered and ungracious heroine. In ch. 3, she lets a young man kiss her so she can then manipulate him to take her into the jungle without her father or his employer's (the MMC) knowledge. When they are inevitably lost and then found by the MMC, she lashes out at him as being a "cruel, sadistic brute". She really was a nasty little piece of work. The book is also cringingly racist (indigenous people are described as ugly, vicious-looking savages with barbarically-tattooed faces) which made me think this was written in the 1960s or thereabouts.
Lynx-eyed, he looked more devil than man That was Rebel Storm's first--and lasting--impression of Luiz Manchete, self-appointed king of the Amazon jungle. Appropriately, the natives called him Curupira, the wild man.
Rebel wanted to do anthropological research in the heart of the jungle--a venture that Luiz savagely opposed.
She refused to take no for an answer... then suddenly found herself caught between primitive head-hunting natives and the equally dangerous Curupira!
كوروبيرا...رجل الغابات, لاعجب فكرت ريبيل بأن يطلق قبائل الامازون البدائيين هذا الاسم على لويس مانشنت, انها لم تلتق شخص يشبهه ابداً...متحضر وبدائي في نفس الوقت. حيث يعيش في الغابات حياة رجل بدائي تناقضها حياته المتحضرة بعيداً عن الغابات. يفهم الحياة البسيطة للشعب الهندي, وكان هذا ما لاحظته ريبيل عندما وجدت نفسها وحيدة معه في قلب مملكة الادغال حيث وجدته ساحراً..ولكن مع الايام تعلمت ريبيل بأن حبه وعشيقته الوحيدة كانت وستبقى غابات الأمازون.