ASIN: B019MCJZHK
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 390
FIRST PLACE WINNER in the prestigious PNWA competition. -- Tepui is an “intelligent, cutting edge” tale of adventure, terror, and forbidden love. -- "Easily, one of the best books I have read this year." In 1559, forty-nine Spaniards exploring a tributary of the Orinoco River reached a sheer-sided, cloud-capped mountain called Tepui Zupay. When they tried to climb it, all but six were slaughtered by Amazons. Or so claimed Friar Sylvestre, the expedition's chronicler. But Sylvestre made many bizarre claims: rivers of blood, plants that lead to gold ...Jerry Pace, a burn-scarred botanist struggling for tenure at UCLA, thinks the friar was delusional. Jerry's best friend, the historian who just acquired Sylvestre's journal, disagrees. He plans to retrace the expedition's footsteps, and wants Jerry to come with him. Jerry refuses, until he spots a stain between the journal's pages--a stain ...
