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28%OFFPetru Popescu - The Encounter: Amazon Beaming - 9781782272335 - V9781782272335
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The Encounter: Amazon Beaming

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Description for The Encounter: Amazon Beaming Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 1KLSR; JFSL9; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 43. Weight in Grams: 360.
1969: Loren McIntyre makes contact with the elusive Mayoruna 'cat people' of the Amazon's Javari Valley. He follows them - into the wild depths of the rainforest. When he realises he is lost, it is already too late. Stranded and helpless, McIntyre must adjust to an alien way of life. Gradually, he finds his perception of the world beginning to change, and a strange relationship starts to develop with the Mayoruna chief - is McIntyre really able to communicate with the headman in a way that goes beyond words, beyond language? ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Pushkin Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782272335
SKU
V9781782272335
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99-50

About Petru Popescu
Born in Bucharest in 1944, Petru Popescu was Communist Romania's most provocative young novelist, before he was forced to defect and start writing in English. His Romanian novels Captured and Burial of the Vine are classics of the resistance against totalitarian art. Moving to the United States, he wrote movies including The Last Wave and Death of an Angel, ... Read more

Reviews for The Encounter: Amazon Beaming
[Petru Popescu] gives McIntyre's story the narrative drive of a thriller... a book that suggests new ways of looking at the world and our place within it Sunday Telegraph Blazing tale of mysticism and acculturation Financial Times [An] eye-popping account... according to several excited critics, McBurney's use of the very latest in sound technology has the miraculous effect of making ... Read more

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