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The saddest pleasure : a journey on two rivers : a memoir

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Description: The author, an early Peace Corps worker, tells of his "desperate departure from Ecuador at the age of sixty-three and his soul-searching journey through Brazil and the Amazon River.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1990]
Call number: 490675
Creator: Thomsen, Moritz(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 1555971245
Dimensions: 23 cm.
Associated people: Theroux, Paul,

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