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Amazon Nights: Classic Adventure Tales from the Pulps (eBook)
Short Description for Amazon NightsWhen one thinks of the classic adventure-story authors of the pulp fiction era, H. Rider Haggard, Talbot Mundy, and Rafael Sabatini may come first to mind. But Arthur O. Friel's stellar contributions -- particularly his stories featuring Loureno and Pedro, two workers on a rubber-tree plantation in the Amazon, and the adventures they have exploring the rain forest's mysterious back-country during ...
Full description- Publisher: Wildside Press
- Published: 01 September 2005
- Format: eBook
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Thrillers | Adventure | Fantasy
- ISBN 13: 9785551483571 ISBN 10: 5551483576
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Full description for Amazon Nights
When one thinks of the classic adventure-story authors of the pulp fiction era, H. Rider Haggard, Talbot Mundy, and Rafael Sabatini may come first to mind. But Arthur O. Friel's stellar contributions -- particularly his stories featuring Loureno and Pedro, two workers on a rubber-tree plantation in the Amazon, and the adventures they have exploring the rain forest's mysterious back-country during the flood season -- certainly deserve honorable mention. Here are tales of peril and last-minute rescue, brutal savages and men of honor, snake-worshipping armies and half-ape Lost Races -- and many more For in the shadows of the rain-forest, many evils lurk. . . human and otherwise Features a new introduction by Darrell Schweiter, 8 short stories, and "The Jararaca," a complete novel.

