Los niños del Amazonas: 40 días perdidos en la selva
Environment, Nature, Indigenous peoples, Social issues, Biography
Human-narrated audio
Summary
"I tried really hard and I didn't get an explanation. After a forty-day search performed by some of the world's best-trained soldiers in the matter of survival and jungle tracking, the four missing children happened to appear barely 30 feet… away from where the shaman said they would be. It all happened under the influence of yage, a sacred drink that, according to Amazonian cultures, heals all illnesses and gives you dream-like visions for a few minutes, allowing you to enter the depths of your mind or travel freely through time and space. In the interviews done for the book, the President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, told me that he tried yage in his youth on two separate occasions. The first time he learned that caring for nature should be his main reason to live. The second time he received the chilling vision of his own death. This is also the story of abused children who found a chance for happiness following a tragedy; of indigenous communities living in poverty, and yet owners of the giant lung that could save humanity; of a general who won the most crucial battle of his life without firing a single shot, and the story of a tracking dog that picked up the footprints of the surviving children, but couldn't find its way out of the jungle." -- Provided by publisher