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ROBERT CARVER
Paradise with Serpents
TRAVELS IN THE LOST WORLD
OF PARAGUAY
William Collins
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Published by Harper Perennial 2007
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From the reviews of The Accursed Mountains:
‘A memorable debut. Robert Carver has fulfilled the dream of every travel writer to find somewhere strange, remote and unvisited, and to pin it to the printed page. The Accursed Mountains is a tale at once endlessly diverting and profoundly tragic’
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE
‘One of the most exciting travel books for a generation’
Spectator
‘A classic’
JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT, Books of the Year, Observer
‘A dazzling account of a journey – always bizarre, often comic, and increasingly nightmarish – through one of the most dangerous backwaters currently to be found anywhere’
PETER HOPKIRK
‘A splendid account of a courageous journey’
DERVLA MURPHY
‘Required reading’
PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR
‘Enviable writing skills … fresh horrors on every page’
JUSTIN WINTLE, The Times
‘A gripping account of Albania in the 1990s’
JAMES OWEN, Daily Telegraph
Dedicated toSt Antony of Padua
Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes
Unhappy is the nation in need of heroes
Bertolt Brecht
Cada uno hace su propia aventura Everyone makes his own fortune
Miguel Cervantes de Vedra
Contents
4 Du Côté de Chez Madame Lynch
5 Paraguay, Champion of America
7 The Gigantic Province of the Indies
13 The Book of Complaint and Enticement