The hard evidence amounted to a grainy photo published in a 1929 London newspaper. Sitting on a packing case, propped up with a large stick, was what purported to be the body of a giant ape -- the "Mono Rey." It was said to have inhabited the dense jungles of northern Bolivia, around the Madidi river -- but the last person to explore the region, the redoubtable Major Percy Harrison Fawcett back in the 1920s, had since disappeared without a trace. For Simon Chapman, however, the jungle is the only place to be, and the denser and more remote the better. Which is why Chapman, along with two eccentric companions, took an all-too-collapsible canoe into the swamps and rainforests of Bolivia to find the mythical monster of the Madidi. By turns gripping, comic, and touching, and with a superb awareness of the natural world, The Monster of the Madidi marks the debut of an exceptional new travel writer.
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The hard evidence amounted to a grainy photo published in a 1929 London newspaper. Sitting on a packing case, propped up with a large stick, was what purported to be the body of a giant ape—the “Mono Rey.” It was said to have inhabited the dense jungles of northern Bolivia, around the Madidi river—but the last person to explore the region, the redoubtable Major Percy Harrison Fawcett back in the 1920s, had since disappeared without a trace. For Simon Chapman, however, the jungle is the only place to be, and the denser and more remote the better. Which is why Chapman, along with two eccentric companions, took an all–too–collapsible canoe into the swamps and rainforests of Bolivia to find the mythical monster of the Madidi. By turns gripping, comic, and touching, and with a superb awareness of the natural world, The Monster of the Madidi marks the debut of an exceptional new travel writer.
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Simon Chapman has written travel features for BBC Wildlife, Wanderlust, Global Adventure and Birdwatch magazines. He lives in Lancaster.
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I don't read a great deal of adventure/travel writing, but Simon Chapman's The Monster of the Madidi is a fantastic romp through the jungles of Bolivia. The premise of the trip is a search for the legendary DeLoys' ape, of which we have only a photo from the 1920s and plenty of local accounts of its reality. I won't reveal if Simon found the ape, but the story of the search makes great reading full of log jams, murky jungles, "hostile" locals, inept flight officials, screaming monkeys, hitch hiking Australians, and--well you get the picture. A fun read.
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The author has an amazing ability to paint the Bolivian jungle for you and put you right there in the middle of the adventure. It's hard to put down.
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