If you ever find yourself on a horse completely alone in a jungle forest and suddenly surrounded by silent, save Indians, it will be a good idea to have a safety pin on you somewhere, Fortunately, the authors wife had one.
This is just one of the many tense situations chronicled by Gustav Bolinder in this account of three journeys into the Sierra de Pierija that extension of the Andes which separates Colombia from Venezuela. Some of his discoveries were actually challenged by his fellow ethnologists until he could produce the extraordinary photographs which illustrate this story.
If you ever find yourself on a horse completely alone in a jungle forest and suddenly surrounded by silent, save Indians, it will be a good idea to have a safety pin on you somewhere, Fortunately, the authors wife had one.
This is just one of the many tense situations chronicled by Gustav Bolinder in this account of three journeys into the Sierra de Pierija that extension of the Andes which separates Colombia from Venezuela. Some of his discoveries were actually challenged by his fellow ethnologists until he could produce the extraordinary photographs which illustrate this story.