Mother of God: An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon, by Paul Rosolie
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For fans of The Lost City of Z, Walking the Amazon, and Turn Right at Machu Picchu comes naturalist and explorer Paul Rosolie’s extraordinary adventure in the uncharted tributaries of the Western Amazon—a tale of discovery that vividly captures the awe, beauty, and isolation of this endangered land and presents an impassioned call to save it.
In the Madre de Dios—Mother of God—region of Peru, where the Amazon River begins its massive flow, the Andean Mountain cloud forests fall into lowland Amazon Rainforest, creating the most biodiversity-rich place on the planet. In January 2006, when he was just a restless eighteen-year-old hungry for adventure, Paul Rosolie embarked on a journey to the west Amazon that would transform his life.
Venturing alone into some of the most inaccessible reaches of the jungle, he encountered giant snakes, floating forests, isolated tribes untouched by outsiders, prowling jaguars, orphaned baby anteaters, poachers in the black market trade in endangered species, and much more. Yet today, the primordial forests of the Madre de Dios are in danger from developers, oil giants, and gold miners eager to exploit its natural resources.
In Mother of God, this explorer and conservationist relives his amazing odyssey exploring the heart of this wildest place on earth. When he began delving deeper in his search for the secret Eden, spending extended periods in isolated solitude, he found things he never imagined could exist. “Alone and miniscule against a titanic landscape I have seen the depths of the Amazon, the guts of the jungle where no men go, Rosolie writes. “But as the legendary explorer Percy Fawcett warned, ‘the few remaining unknown places of the world exact a price for their secrets.’”
Illustrated with 16 pages of color photos.
Mother of God: An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon, by Paul Rosolie - Amazon Sales Rank: #241284 in Books
- Brand: Rosolie, Paul
- Published on: 2015-03-17
- Released on: 2015-03-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .76" w x 5.31" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
Mother of God: An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon, by Paul Rosolie From Booklist Enthralled with animals and nature from childhood, Rosolie fixated on the Amazon forest and adventured there as a teenager in 2005. From that and subsequent sojourns, he has synthesized this account of experiencing the environment and wildlife of, specifically, the Madre de Dios region of Peru. Coursed by rivers, carpeted with trees, soaked by rain, it is the stage for Rosolie’s quests to find large predators, such as jaguars, anacondas, and crocodiles. The peril in such searching tensely builds in Rosolie’s accounts of his encounters, which relax as he returns safely to his base of civilization, a combination ecotourism-and-biology-research station. Its operation and orbiting personalities connect to Rosolie’s critical observations about threats to the tropical habitat, such as poachers and loggers, with whom he has wary interactions in the course of his treks. They aren’t the only human hazard. In Rosolie’s culminating tale, he enters reputedly unexplored territory, is spotted by indigenous people, and flees for his life. Writing with intrepid curiosity and a passion for ecological preservation, Rosolie will rally readers of Ed Stafford’s Walking the Amazon (2012). --Gilbert Taylor
Review “Rosolie is a gripping storyteller. . . . His enthusiasm for the wilderness and his ability to convey it poetically makes him an exceedingly persuasive advocate for conserving what’s left of the natural world.” (BookPage)“Rosolie’s solo adventures in the heart of the Amazon jungle, up close and personal with giant anacondas and jaguars, are gripping. And his dedication to preserving one of the earth’s last wildernesses is where he really sets himself apart. Mother of God is an awe-inspiring read.” (Bear Grylls)“A great adventure with a great and enduring point: we simply must protect these last, vast slices of the planet that still work the way they’re supposed to.” (Bill McKibben)“Thanks to fastidious journal-keeping that preserved a wealth of detail and emotion, Rosolie delivers an old-fashioned jungle adventure, one with rare immediacy and depth of feeling for the people and creatures he encounters.” (The Wall Street Journal)“Paul Rosolie’s Mother of God is more than a thrilling adventure tale, it’s an old-fashioned boy-meets-jungle love story. Be prepared to fall for it.” (Mark Adams, author of Turn Right at Machu Pichu)“An extraordinary book…His vivid writing immerses you in his adventures as he explores an ancient pristine forest where no white man has been, where he encounters amazing creatures, and experiences the relentless power of untamed nature…There are parts that will haunt you, scenes you will never forget.” (Jane Goodall)“A gripping adventure story filled with plenty of adrenaline-filled encounters with massive snakes, intimidating jaguars and other creatures. . . . A vividly written narrative of an amazingly diverse world still to be explored, whose destruction, as Rosolie wisely notes, would be a devastating loss for humanity.” (Kirkus)“A rousing eco-adventure. . . . This is old-school nature writing, unabashedly romantic and free of alienation. . . . Rosolie’s powers of description are so vivid and engrossing that readers will be swept along in his passion.” (Publishers Weekly (starred review))“Rosolie writes with intrepid curiosity and a passion for ecological preservation.” (Booklist)“A sobering account of an ecosystem hanging in the balance. . . . An insightful history of the region. . . . Entertaining and revelatory.” (The Wichita Eagle)
From the Back Cover
When Paul Rosolie, a restless eighteen-year-old hungry for adventure, embarked on a journey to the western Amazon in 2006, he didn't know that it would transform his life. In the Madre de Dios ("Mother of God") region of Peru, where the Amazon River begins, the cloud forests of the Andes converge with the lowland Amazon rain forest to create the most biodiverse wilderness on the planet.
In a true story of adventure and discovery that spans more than nine years, Rosolie takes us into the most inaccessible reaches of the Amazon. Along the way, he encounters massive snakes, isolated tribes, prowling jaguars, giant anteaters, and much more in the Wild West of the natural world. It is a journey into the last great wilderness that ultimately asks the question of our time: How much longer will these places exist? The primordial depths of the Madre de Dios are in grave danger.
Mother of God is the story of an amazing odyssey into the heart of the wildest place on earth. But as Rosolie delves deeper into the heart of the jungle, he finds things he never imagined could exist. And as the legendary explorer Percy Fawcett warned, "The few remaining unknown places of the world exact a price for their secrets."
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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful. Beautifully written, totally engaging, vitally important By Trudie Barreras The first thing I need to say about Rosolie's incredible book is that I'm profoundly glad I didn't allow myself to be turned off by the title. Admittedly, the subtitle, "An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon" casts a different light on the author's topic. But still, if anyone is expecting a fairly traditional theological or spiritual treatise, they will be very far from the mark. Actually, what Paul Rosolie describes, in brilliant and gripping detail, is his immersion in the incredible world of the Madre de Dios region of the Peruvian jungle.All of the usual superlative adjectives - amazing, epic, magnificent, heart-breaking, terrifying, astonishing - even the more vernacular ones like "mind-blowing" and "awesome" - can be applied to this book without in any way overstating its impact. I have to confess to a tendency in my own mind to keep thinking, "NO WAY!" No way that these incredible adventures can have actually happened; no way that, beginning as a dyslexic 18-year-old, the author could, in seven short years, have lived or experienced so much and rendered the description in such vivid terms. And yet, this is a true-life adventure, verifiable from other current sources if one needs the verification. This is real and vital and stunningly important.In his introduction, Rosolie admits that his story sounds more like fiction - fantasy fiction at that - than fact. He also states that he was careful to avoid his book becoming a scientific text or historical summary of the Amazon, but none-the-less he weaves in an astonishing amount of detailed information of great scientific, historical, ecological and sociological value. He obviously "knows his stuff", and despite the fact of his youth, deserves to be credited as a naturalist of high qualifications.Although Paul Rosolie began by thinking that all he was searching for was a great adventure, and fearing that he had been born too late to make "great discoveries" of the once-abundant unexplored wildernesses of our planet, he came to the realization that, in his own words, "I was not born in the wrong century, or even the wrong decade. This is exactly where I was meant to be, rafting beneath the tall emerald canopy, pulled by the swift current, on the long, winding, wild heart of the Madre de Dios." This quote, in fact, brings to mind the statement made by Mordecai to Ester as she debated confronting the King and risking her life to save the Jews: "Who knows? Perhaps you have come to royal dignity for just such a time as this." The challenge facing all of us at this moment in history is more than saving just one race; it is saving an entire planet as a habitat for humans as well as others. In another place, Rosolie quoted Carl Sagan: "Anything else you're interested in isn't going to happen if you can't breathe the air and drink the water."This is, above all, a beautifully written and totally engaging narrative of why and how humankind will either change our greedy, cruel and destructive ways, and begin to accept our true calling to the stewardship of the magnificent planet with which we've been gifted, or go down in the holocaust which we have indeed perpetrated and permitted. Although there is hope, there is indeed dire warning. We need to heed, or die!
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful. Paul Rosolie is the 21st Century's John Goddard By Bill Anderson In the real world, as opposed to Hollywood's Indiana Jones, explorers are rare and seldom live long enough to author books to record their journeys.Until Paul Rosolie's Mother of God, an extraordinary journey into the uncharted tributaries of the western Amazon, the most recent similar books were written by my hero, John Goddard, who, last May 11th, entered the hereafter.Rosolie, in 2006 at age 18, is reputed to be the only, or, at least, the first white man to travel into the wildest place on Earth. Unlike Goddard, Rosolie writes in a more prosaic fluency. The following excerpt should explain what I mean, and why this is such a fun book to read:"I feel like I am on ayahuasca," JJOHNB said, looking around after forty silent minutes on the strange terrain, "Me, too," I whispered, though I had never taken the hallucinogenic at that time. This was farther down the Amazon rabbit hole than even JJ had ever been. It looked like we had reentered the Jurassic. The blazing moonlight only accentuated the phantasmal archipelago of floating islands. This was Dr. Seuss on acid.The paragraphs following the above excerpt report their finding of giant Anaconda trails...Again, Mother of God is an outstanding adventure...I can't wait for the Major Motion Picture!
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful. Wow. Now I know the Amazon. By Jesse Walker I'm an ecologist. A decade ago, I spent a month living in remote, coastal, forested Panama, walking among the swampy mangroves every day as a field assistant to an experienced researcher there. I miss that life. What Rosolie describes in this book is that life, and yet it's so much more. He's had adventures most of us wouldn't dream of as he's explored one of the most remote, pristine, natural ecosystems on the planet. I'm jealous, and yet thrilled to have found this book. "Nature" is my thing, and this is about as wild as it gets. I haven't been to the Amazon (yet; fingers crossed), but the book really helps you feel the place. The author is good. He's a storyteller, and the book is one I didn't want to put down. It's nature, but this isn't a pedantic science book. It's adventure, but this is no novel. This honest biography of adventuring is an excellent way to convey the spirit of the place. The spirit of the wild.Anyway, I liked it. A lot. You probably will too. If you know anyone with a passion for the outdoors and a sense of adventure, this would make a great gift. Just don't be surprised if they end up wanting to go spend some time in the Amazon.
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