1923 AMAZON HEAD HUNTERS F W Up De Graff Wild Tribes Jungle Adventures Cannibals.

Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration & Adventure, by Fritz W. Up De Graff.

First Edition; Foreword by Kermit Roosevelt; Illustrated

First Edition.

Hardcover, w/out DJ;

Duffield & Co., 1923.

Copyright 1923 by Duffield & Company.

8vo. Approx. 9" x 6" x 2" 337 pp.

full of adventure as this one. Starting from NYC the author traveled to Ecuador in 1894, from there traveling and exploring the areas never before traversed including the Yasuni river basin (one of the most biologically diverse areas on earth) harvesting rubber, up the Maranon and Santiago rivers in search of gold with group of like-minded adventurers (with a little head-hunting along the way), and sundry other events of interest, subsisting along the way on spider roast spider monkey and howler monkey (both said to be delicious), tapir and capybara (noxious) and one time even a giant anteater, which left the author violently ill.

Needless to say his adventures put those of modern journalists and wannabe pseudo-explorer-authors to shame.