Subject: Meet the Author: Scott Wallace
From: "Kimball Stroud" <[email-masked]>
To: "Kimball Stroud" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 13:55:37 -0700

Friends - I hope you can make it tonight to meet one of our great local journalists, Scott Wallace, as he reads from his new book "The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes."  The book tells the extraordinary tale of a journey into the deepest recesses of the Amazon to track one of the planet's last uncontacted indigenous tribes. In this gripping first-person account of adventure and survival, the author follows a 34-man team into the Amazon's uncharted depths, discovering the rainforest's secrets while moving ever closer to a possible encounter with the mysterious flecheiros - or "People of the Arrow" - a seldom-glimpsed tribe of deft archers known to defend their lands with showers of deadly arrows before melting back into the forest shadows.

Details for tonight:
6:30 - 8:00pm at Busboys & Poets (14th & V St)
If you are unable to attend, please buy the book!  http://scottwallace.com/unconquered/

What they are saying:
"A riveting and brilliant book blessed with the pacing of a novel but carrying the great weight of world events. This is journalism at its very very best. " - Sebastian Junger, author of War and The Perfect Storm

"Scott Wallace's superbly-written account is as riveting as one of the old explorer's classic memoirs. Reading The Unconquered left me with a sense of awe that we share this world with people like the flecheiros - and profoundly moved by the inevitability of their extinction. It is a one-of-a-kind book about a one-of-a kind experience, and it is difficult to imagine that there will be many more like it."  - Jon Lee Anderson, author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life

"Scott Wallace writes with great verve about an amazing adventure, a journey informed by his deep knowledge of the history and anthropology of the Amazon."  - Peter Bergen, author of The Osama bin Laden I Know and The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaeda

Kimball Stroud
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