Amazon Nights: Classic Adventure Tales from the Pulps

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 Lourenco and Pedro, two workers on a rubber-tree plantation in the Amazon Jungle. Their adventures in the Amazon's mysterious back-country 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 Schweitzer, eight short stories, and The Jararaca, a complete novel.

Author: Arthur O. Friel
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: 03/24/2005
Pages: 348
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.46lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780809511990

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