Amazon and a Donkey

An interesting book, but I have to say the map at the start confused me - it show a massive journey route through Peru, Brazil, Bolivia and back to Peru. Three quarters of the way thru the book we were still approaching Iquitos in Peru! Turns out the Brazilian river trip and the return to Peru was covered in a chapter - mostly by plane.
Nevertheless the Peruvian travel with a Donkey in the Andes was interesting, but with all the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) activity in Peru at the time it seems miraculous they were never encountered.