Reviews

River of Darkness: Francisco Orellana's Legendary Voyage of Death and Discovery Down the Amazon by Buddy Levy

alphaomega22's review

adventurous informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

overheat4600's review against another edition

4.0

Pretty good. Fairly captivating and compelling. I learned something new.

villyidol's review against another edition

3.0

Hm. I thought there would be a stronger sense of exploration in this "account of one of history's greatest adventures of discovery." You know, man battling nature instead of man doing battle with man. My bad.

I think this may have worked better for me as a fictional story. >> [b:El país de la canela|6150922|El país de la canela|William Ospina|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1348299046l/6150922._SY75_.jpg|6330083]? >> Maybe a good reason for me to seriously work on my Spanish.

jaydeereading's review

adventurous mysterious reflective medium-paced

3.5

bookwormmichelle's review

3.0

I'm normally not a hugely enthusiastic reader of stories about conquistadors, since said stories usually make me rather ill. For a conquistador story, this one was pretty interesting--it is actually more of a survivalist narrative of Francisco Orellano's 1542 navigation of the Amazon River. Fairly well written, pretty good survivalist story, alas, the guy was still a conquistador (at one point, he roasts the women and children of an entire village by setting the town on fire because the men were firing on them when they landed their boats below the town. I'd have fired on them, too.)

jasond's review

3.0

He who goes to the Amazon dies or goes mad. Pretty true, death, choas, battle, Amazon river warriors, this book has everything but cannibalism.