The most interesting aspects of the Amazon was the features of the river as well as its mystery. As the writer explains, it is easily deceiving as it begins as barely a rivulet, but as it tickles down, thousands of other rivulets join in to create the mighty river it is. As Amazon meanders through South America, other rivers from Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela, where it finally reaches its 200-mile-wide mouth and flows into the Atlantic Ocean, expelling fifty-seven million gallons of water per second. The source of the river is mere trickles of ice from the Andes, that cascade down and embark on a seemingly impossible journey to the Atlantic Ocean. Nonetheless, the wonders of nature are not as amusing unless associated with other unnatural factors and occurrences.
For the Amazon, the mystery is the sudden and unexplained disappearance of scientists who had dared explore that region. This, in my opinion, is the most interesting thing about it, besides the unfathomable features of the river. The first ones to disappear were Colonel Percy Fawcett, his son Jack, as well as Raleigh Rimell. Their disappearance, according to the book, is one of the most celebrated vanishing acts of modern times. What is even more interesting is that instead of vanishing scaring scientists, it motivated them to find the remains of the colonel and the other two. As expected, such a mystical disappearance, coupled with the nature of the Amazon would have scared them into giving up the quest, but that was not the case. The writer states that scores went out seeking the remains in order to clarify the rumors about their disappearance, but most, if not all, of them, met a similar fate. Some disappeared along with Fawcett; others were wiped out by diseases, others starved to death, while tribesmen killed others. Although no statistics are showing the exact number that died, the writer believes they were close to a hundred.
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