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September 9, 1961

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a reporter at large

THE LAST WILDERNESS PERUVIAN JOURNEY

Peter Matthiessen

REPORTER AT LARGE about "an uncomfortable, perhaps foolish journey of nearly a thousand miles along Peru's jungle rivers." Plans for the expedition …