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If you haven't read the story of the first Westerner to travel the length of the Amazon, it's perhaps the most incredible adventure of all time: "River of Dark
by tern 3y ago
If you haven't read the story of the first Westerner to travel the length of the Amazon, it's perhaps the most incredible adventure of all time:
"River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana and the Deadly First Voyage through the Amazon" https://a.co/d/cmtyj0l https://a.co/d/cmtyj0l
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- JoeDaDude 3y agoOrellana's voyage down the Amazon river is the subject of one episode of Michael Wood's Conquistadors, a series of travel videos linked below. Orellana described seeing large communities and cities from the river, recording the existence of a large population that had been decimated by the time the wider world ventured into the Amazon. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5mko7v https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5mko7v
- mista2nith 3y ago[dead]