"Some regard the tropics as an equatorial Dante's Inferno, the so-called Green Hell. The Rainforest: abominably hot, oppressively humid, crawling with vile scorpions, immense, hairy, ugly tarantulas, lethal, concealed snakes, marauding, biting, stinging, and generally irritating insects, not to mention countless legions of external and internal parasites awaiting to devour you from without and within."
This extract, taken from "A Neotropical Companion" by John Kricher (1989) was the first thing I read regarding the Peruvian rainforest. With soya latte in hand and eyes fixed on the world globe sat on my shelf I thought, without any hesitation, this is a place I need it go. And so it begins... |