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Carla's Song
Glaswegian bus driver (Robert Carlyle) befriends a Nicaraguan refugee astray on the streets of Glasgow. As their friendship grows George decides to take Carla back to Nicaragua. What he finds is a country destroyed by civil war but a people who refuse to lie down. "....a love story with a political... Read more»
Green heart of a lost world - John Gimlette in Guyana
Fifty-eight miles from anywhere we stopped at a village called "58''. It was a pretty place, tucked into the lee of a forest the size of Britain.Everybody had a pastel hut, a bicycle and a bow and arrows. We had horses once, they told us, but the jaguars ate them. Nowadays, 58 is best-known for its... Read more»
Sophie Campbell visits the Tigre Delta
There was a school party on the river bus. Chattering pupils, wearing life jackets as nonchalantly as British children might wear blazers, dumped their packs and got out cards. White-coated teachers studied their payslips.I leant on a warm ledge of varnished wood and reflected upon my last visit to... Read more»
Sophie Campbell explores Salta province
Foggy? It's not meant to be foggy. In my mind, the province of Salta, in north-west Argentina, is hot orange and red; somewhere you can fry a steak on your horse's rump.But it is foggy. So much so that the plane takes a dummy run at the tarmac and zooms up again and into the fog.Somewhere around us... Read more»
Last Frontiers Newsletter #4 July 2004
I know it is only a couple of months since our last newsletter, but with the Game Fair looming (see below) we thought it was timely to send another!In this issue: Wildlife in Northern Argentina and the Brazilian Pantanal Mexico: Copper Canyon, whales, and kayaks Guyana: Jungle and Jaguars Fish... Read more»
Last Frontiers Newsletter #3 June 2004
As promised we are back again with some news and updates from the travels of the Last Frontiers team. This newsletter has taken a bit more time to put together than usual as we have all been away so much!In this edition: News from Last Frontiers Jill in Peru and Chile Tracy in Brazil Alison in... Read more»
In the jungles of Venezuela, the anaconda awaits (Simon Hacker)
It can’t be much fun being Eunectes murinus. When you’re not being eyed up as a supplier for next autumn’s range of handbags, some macho tourist is hoping you’ll play a cameo role in his holiday snaps. No wonder they have a notoriously nasty temper.Tourists and scary animals are getting increasingly... Read more»
A handful that just might be more than dust (Nick Gordon, January 2004)
Nick Gordon sees two faces of Brazil - the Chapada Diamantina park and a favela in RioIt doesn't take long, less than 24 hours, for me to be offered a handful of diamonds. I hear a whistle, see a local pushing a bike and am given what I take to be a staged conspiratorial look, something between a to... Read more»
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