Why a Booktrail?
Where do you go to loose yourself and then find yourself again?
The Lost Steps
What you need to know before your trail
Fleeing an empty existence in New York City, a composer heads out with his mistress to one of the few remaining areas of the world not yet touched by civilization-the upper reaches of a great South American river.
He is on a search – for what he doesn’t know yet but he hopes that the change of pace, the new discoveries, the new adventures together will show him what’s important. Then he makes a remarkable decision he makes in a village that seems to be truly outside history.
Travel Guide
New York
A slight mention of New York as the main character is a composer and there are many places in the city where you could go to see a fantastic concert. Maybe he has experience of working in some of the most iconic theatres in the city.
The Amazon Rainforest
“One felt the presence of rampant fauna, of the primeval slime, of the green fermentation beneath the dark waters, which gave off a sour reek like a mud of vinegar and carrion, over whose oily surface moved insects made to walk on the water: chinch-bugs, white fleas, high-jointed flies, tiny mosquitoes that were hardly more than shimmering dots in the green light, for the green, shot through by an occasional ray of sun, was so intense that the light as it filtered through the leaves had the color of moss dyed the hue of the swamp-bottoms as it sought the roots of the plants.”
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Lost Steps
Author/Guide: Alejo Carpentier Destination: Amazon Rainforest, New York (NYC)
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