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From the vast island of Sumatra, Benedict Allen brings back the strangest of travellers' tales concerning black-maned ape-men asTheodore Hull - octogenarian survivor of Japanese labour camps - entices him onto the trail of the Gugu. A tangle of folktales leads Allen to the aboriginal Kubu people who can guide him into the highlands where the ape-men screech all night long, shaking every fibre of the forest. But the twentieth century is encroaching, and Kubu say that the Gugus' rage can no longer be appeased by traditional gifts of tobacco. Allen ventures into the dark, living forest, watched by unseen eyes . . .
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Benedict Allen is one of the UK's most prominent explorers. For the past twenty-five years he has conducted solo expeditions through the Amazon jungle, along Namibia's Skeleton Coast and across Mongolia's Gobi Desert without the use of GPS, satellite phone or other means of outside support, as we as having written ten books of his adventures and editing The Faber Book of Exploration. He was the first explorer to bring the full experience of remote travel to television - taking the genre to its limits by not using a camera crew and so bringing an immediacy to his experiences. Allen regularly gives lectures at the Royal Geographic Society.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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Another superb read from Benedict Allen in which the author's wonderfully understated sense of humour is at its best. His sharp eye for details of human characteristics and habits, and gentle handling of such, highlight this journey through Sumatra in search of the elusive Gugu. Benedict writes in a way that one has a sense of being his travelling companion throughout and, at the same time, effortlessly absorbing a wealth of anthroplogical and geographical information about Sumatra. You must read this book!
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'A journey without conviction', Allen writes of this book, and it shows. Supposedly, he allows himself to be persuaded of a preposterous cod-evolutionary theory. In order to substantiate it he goes looking for the primitive ape-men which, legend has it, survive on certain Indonesian islands. What follows bears more resemblance to the cynical, post-modern 'humorous' travelogue - complete with drug overdoses, exotic women and eccentric rural characters - than to Allen's usual metier .
In short, this feels like a cheat. Only for short passages, out in the rainforest, does the narrative ring true and seem worthy of the reader's time.
In short, this feels like a cheat. Only for short passages, out in the rainforest, does the narrative ring true and seem worthy of the reader's time.
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