Dead Man Leading (Twentieth Century Classics)
Dead Man Leading (Twentieth Century Classics)
V. S. Pritchett
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An expedition into the heart of the Brazilian jungle brings together three Englishmen, all connected with the life of the same woman in England. Wright, who leads the party, is Lucy's step father, Johnson, son of a missionary who disappeared in the same territory seventeen years earlier, is her lover, and Phillips, a journalist is her friend.Here is not only a narrative, tense with excitement, but an analysis of the psychololgy of exploration - of the forces which move men to forswear the safety of civilization and seek the hardships and perils of the wild.
An expedition into the heart of the Brazilian jungle brings together three Englishmen, all connected with the life of the same woman in England. Wright, who leads the party, is Lucy's step father, Johnson, son of a missionary who disappeared in the same territory seventeen years earlier, is her lover, and Phillips, a journalist is her friend.Here is not only a narrative, tense with excitement, but an analysis of the psychololgy of exploration - of the forces which move men to forswear the safety of civilization and seek the hardships and perils of the wild.
V.S. Pritchett
Victor Sawdon Pritchett was born in Ipswich, Suffolk, the first of four children of Walter Sawdon Pritchett and Beatrice Helena (née Martin). His father, a London businessman in financial...
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