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Five Decades Later: My Return to Peru to Explore the Amazon
Author and Amazon explorer Richard Simon Story and Photos by Richard Simon It had been 57 years since I had first muddied my boots in the muck and tangles of the Amazon jungle, north of the river-locked city of Iquitos, Peru. Time to revisit. The heat and …