The Man Who Swam The Amazon - Matthew Mohlke & Martin Strel

Mohlke & Strel take you on the adventure of a lifetime in "The Man Who Swam the Amazon"! You are in the jungle stroke for stroke with Strel hearing the scream of the jaguar, howler monkeys, cheering throngs along the shore and the menacing motor of pirates or drug runners passing too close in the dark. Vampires, malaria infested mosquitos, candiru, killer reptiles, gargantuan spiders, std laden nymphs,and unpredictable currents are only some of the dangers. This is man against nature at its best in and unbelievable tale that's all too true. Mohlke's style has been compared to Kerouak, Hemmingway, and Twain. He is a gifted and experienced ...  Read the complete review

Slovenians are on the whole pretty laid back people. They have their passions but they enjoy them quietly. A Slovene friend of mine once told me that in Slovenia people are 'known but not famous'. I can kind of see her point. The country has a population of less than 3 million, just over 300,000 live in the capital; sooner or later you are going to bump into one 'celebrity' or another. Most people in the public eye are, as Tanja would have it, 'known' but there are so few of these home-grown notables that they aren't 'famous'; she claims that would involve degrees of being 'known' and in Slovenia all 'known' people are known to the same extent. She's even so ...  Read the complete review