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

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.)