Amazonian Indians - Reminiscences of a Distant Past.

This book is an exceptional testimony, in the aftermath of the Second World War, to a region ten times the size of Switzerland, a region known as Mato Grosso, "dense forest", practically unexplored and populated by Indians hostile to any approach. It looks back at the Roncador-Xingu expedition, the Villas Bôas brothers and the Xingu Indigenous Park, drawing in particular on the contacts that René Fuerst, the author of this book, established from 1955 with the Amazonian Indians, first the Xavante, then the Indians of the Upper Xingu. His story is the culmination, at the age of twenty-two