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...jungle brought out in this most interesting of books. It is an account of four adventurers in a South American jungle, written in a style that makes it one of those volumes which, once begun, can only be stopped with the last page. An English cinematographer, a Russian tiger-hunter, a Bolivian diplomat, and an Irish writer penetrate a jungle which had been undisturbed for over 300 years since a Spanish explorer first traversed...
...never been in the eastern wilds of his own country. Bee-Mason was an Arctic cinematographer. Duguid had never been outside Europe. Luckily for the expedition they had not gone very far into the jungle when they ran into Alexander Siemel (TIME, April 13, et ante) whom Duguid calls Tiger-Man because he is a famed jaguar hunter (South Americans call jaguars tigers). Siemel saw them through many a tight place...
...left town when he fell in love with his best friend's wife. He worked in the forests as a woodcutter among the Indians, liked it so much he decided to stay. He learned jaguar-hunting from an Indian spearman, turned hunter himself. He has bayonetted many a "tiger" after cornering it with his dogs. He told Duguid a grim story: Siemel's brother, who lived with his wife and little son in Cuyaba, Brazil, had a German enemy. The German hired a gunman to shoot Siemel's brother in the back; he was a long time...
...After leaving Oxford he went vaguely to London to do something vaguely literary. He tried school-teaching for a few years, then jumped at the chance to go exploring. He is now unofficially visiting the Matto Grosso expedition in order to complete a forthcoming biography of Tiger-Man Siemel. Last month Publisher Century radioed him that Green Hell had sold out three editions (16,000 copies...
...languages-acquiring, incidentally, a love of the sea, which became his favorite theme. He knows Asia, the Near East, Africa. He spent 1904 in Greece. In France before the War he met Georges Clemenceau at the studio of Claude Monet. In 1914 he offered his polylinguistic services to the Tiger. He served as an officer in the French, British and U. S. Armies successively. Especially adept was he at detecting whether or not a man's dialect in any language corresponded to the town he purported to be from; by this means he exposed many a German spy, sent...