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The first half of this is book boring and clumsily written. It was a struggle just to get the mid-point. Yossi and his friends come off as shallow, annoying people. If you make to page 130 or so things finally start to pick up. But the four of them come off as the biggest bunch of idiots to ever step foot in the Amazon. They are woefully unprepared and under equipped. Their goal was to visit an Indian village that had never seem white people before, as if they think themselves superior to the tourists visiting the tourist handicraft villages. But they cannot be bothered to actually study and learn how to survive in the jungle before they set off on their adventure. I could understand forgetting a critical item or two but what kind of idiots head off into the jungle with only one machete between the four of them? They don't even have an extra pocket knife! Even assuming these guys thought the guide knew what he was doing when they first set out there were plenty of red flags that made it obvious they should have turned back while they had the chance. Like when they went back to the ranch and he was trying to repair his crappy disintegrating footwear. I did not find this book inspirational, I found it to be a tale of morons that I would never want to go on a trip to the corner store with, let alone setting off in the trackless jungle.