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亞馬遜雨林:人間最後的伊甸園

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叢書系列:發現之旅 15

1542年,在美洲新大陸,西班牙人為尋找肉桂之國,竟發現世界第一大河。從此,亞馬遜河流城成為夢想與冒險之地,也淪為剝削之地。採集橡膠,伐林,挖礦,嚴重破壞當地的生態,威脅原住民的生存。亞馬遜河宛如受了傷的巨人,等待世人來關心,來醫治。

1847年4月1日, 有一位法國海軍軍醫,克雷沃(Jules-Nicolas Crevaux),參加了亞馬遜河和奧里諾科河(Orenoque)流域的勘察活動,後來在1880年,法國的《環球旅遊雜誌》(Le Tour du Monde)刊印了一系列的石版畫,描繪他的探險奇遇。1882年4月,他由阿根廷的布宜諾斯艾利斯出發,前往亞馬遜河,途中被托巴族(Toba)印第安人殺害。

「倉猝的旅遊實在浪費光陰,什麼也看不到。蒙上帝的恩惠我有幸到此,應當把握機會好好兒研究自然,因為我不會再來。本能要我順著水流離去;理智卻告訴我:作為一個探險家,匆忙穿越一個陌生之地,無異於臨陣脫逃。」

「我坐在小凳上,面前有個航海羅盤,膝上放著記事本。我隨時記下旅途的所見所聞。」

「在圭亞那,人稱【大樹林】的原始森林裡,陰森而冷峻。35至40公尺有的參天大樹,成千上萬隻羽毛豐美多彩的飛禽,在林間鳴唱。」

「一隊印第安人,從我們身旁輕快地走過,宛如一座移動的森林。」

「烏阿尼卡爬上附近的一棵樹。他手持一根頂端打了活結的長竿,把活結套進野獸的頭頸,然後猛力往下拉。」

-作者簡介-
Alain Gheerbrant
1920年生於巴黎。集詩人、作家、電影藝術家和探險家等頭銜於一身。他在短期從事出版工作之後,赴哥倫比亞首都波哥大,1948年在這兒組成了奧里諾科──亞馬遜河探險隊,擔任領隊。他是第一個穿越帕里馬(Parima)山脈的人。後來,他在世界各地考察,並根據心得著書和製作電影;1955年拍攝電影:《黑白剛果》;1969年,出版《考證人類學叢書》。

-目錄-
第一章:肉桂幻想曲
第二章:神話的誕生
第三章:啟蒙時代的陽光照進雨林
第四章:橡膠大冒險
第五章:印第安人和雨林
見證與文獻
大事紀
圖片目錄與出處
索引

200 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

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Alain Gheerbrant

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Alain Gheerbrant (27 December 1920 – 21 February 2013) was a French writer, editor, poet and explorer, noted for his expedition inside the basins of Amazonian rivers.
From 1948 to 1950, Alain Gheerbrant led the Orinoco-Amazon expedition. He travelled through the basin of both rivers for two years and wrote of his travels in L'Expédition Orénoque-Amazone (1952). He is considered the first Westerner who had peaceful contact with the Yanomami Indians and also the first to cross the Parima Mountains between 1948 and 1950. In 1952, he directed a documentary film called Des hommes qu'on appelle sauvages.

He has produced numerous reports all over the world and published Dictionnaire des symboles in 1982, a collaborative work with Jean Chevalier, an encyclopaedia of cultural anthropology about the symbolism of myths and folklore, which was republished 19 times between 1982 and 1997. He has authored an illustrated pocket book for the "Découvertes Gallimard" collection, called L'Amazone, un géant blessé (1988), which has been translated into eleven languages, including English. In 1995, he released his memoir entitled La Transversale.

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