Visit to Florida and Seminole State College for the Amazon

Just had the most incredible time at Seminole State College! I got to meet so many great people and we were all together for the same reason: to celebrate the Amazon and plan a healthy future for wildlife and people both. It's a strange thing how writing a book starts chapters in other people's lives, and continues to add new friends and chapters to mine. This was an amazing experience. 

Encounters with Uncontacted People in the Amazon

For the last few weeks life has taken place beneath the trees, out in the Madre de Dios region of Peru. While traveling on remote rivers at this time of year, the dry season, it is always important to remember that nomadic 'uncontacted' tribes are a reality in Amazonia. This simple stone axe head was found in the abandoned camp of a nomadic Indian group. Smooth and well made, it is a tool used by a people from an entirely different world.

The Mother of God Trailer -

Book Launch in NYC

Jaguar Breath on My Ear at Night...

I cannot describe what it is like to wake up in the darkness of the jungle, completely alone. You know you are miles from the nearest person, and surrounded by millions and millions of trees. The stars are invisible beneath the canopy, as your hammock rocks gently, and warm breath falls in savage staccato on your neck. The claws, the teeth, those eyes... Invisible just inches from your face. Read more in this sample CLICK HERE:

What Bear Grylls is saying about Mother of God:

The Huffington Post: 8 Outrageous Nonfiction Stories You Wouldn't Believe If They Were Novels

If you were handed a novel that describes someone being carried downriver “while grasping the back of a gigantic anaconda ‘as thick as a small cow and easily well over twenty-five feet long,’ ” would you believe that writer? Probably not. Fiction that’s too outlandish feels false, but nonfiction should be verifiable. That description, by the way, appears in Mother of God: An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon, one of the books in this week’s list of thoughtfully written tales you might be startled to know are true. (click on the picture to see books).

Mother of God: meet the 26 year old Indiana Jones of the Amazon, Paul Rosolie

New article on Mongabay.com about Mother of God, adventure, and conservation. Check it out (click the picture):