Orellana in the Amazones
Suddenly, they can't go back. They have wandered downstream with the intention of finding some food, but the current has become so strong that they are unable to return to the camp where the rest of their people are waiting for them.
So begins one of the most mind-blowing and mind-boggling journeys in human history. For four thousand kilometres, a group of Spaniards, led by Francisco de Orellana, will let themselves be swept along by the current of the greatest river in the world: the Amazon. These are not men who can be easily surprised. However, nature around them becomes implacable. Everything is unthinkably new: animals, sounds, vegetation, people, situations, perspectives. No one has ever undergone such an experience. Four thousand kilometres swept along by the current.
This is the story of an unrepeatable adventure. Of the men who travelled the Amazon River before anyone else. And who, of course, fought against the women who gave it its name.
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