Readers are taken on a four-month journey—at once funny and terrifying—into the bug-ridden rainforest between the Orinoco and the Amazon, where author Redmond O'Hanlon intends to meet the elusive tribe of Yanomami Indians, reputedly the most violent people on earth.
O’Hanlon journeys into a heart of darkness infested with jaguars, assassin bugs, and piranha. Counterpointing the hardships are sightings of amazing birds and a climb up "Toucan hill" that ends in an epiphany.
