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Diamond River [Venezuela] – Sadio Garavini Di Turno
Short Description
First published in Italy – this the super English translation published by the Travel Book Club, part of Hamish Hamilton, London in 1963.
Octavo, 208 pages, dusty edges otherwise a very good copy.
An exploration, adventure book with a touch of the “Wild West” but set in the jungles and rivers of Venezuela.
The author one very tough cookie smelled diamonds in and about the remote river known as Liparu by the natives. Encounters with the Taurepan Tribe, Mundo and the beautiful Lolomai. Potent aphrodisiacs are offered and Turno describes the effect and provides the recipe.
Diamonds found and Turno devises his ambitious plan and sets up a mining camp with all the necessaries attracting wayward prospectors under his terms.
May and may not be the way to go about it!
Venezuela adventure with a bag of diamonds to prove it.
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