When one thinks of the classic adventure-story authors of the pulp fiction
era, H. Rider Haggard, Talbot Mundy and Rafael Sabatini may come first to mind.
But Arthur O. Friel's stellar contributions — particularly his stories
featuring Lourenco and Pedro, two workers on a rubber-tree plantation in the
Amazon Jungle. Their adventures in the Amazon's mysterious back-country
certainly deserve honorable mention. Here are tales of peril and last-minute
rescue, brutal savages and men of honor, snake-worshipping armies and half-ape
Lost Races-and many more! For in the shadows of the rain-forest, many evils
lurk... human and otherwise! Features a new introduction by Darrell Schweitzer,
eight short stories and The Jararaca, a complete novel.