During that journey there had been long periods of just waiting while trees were chopped down to bypass huge potholes - ones big enough to have 6' Victoria Regina water lilies floating in them - and I read the only book I brought, the 800+ page Forsyte Saga. Travelling by small boat, bus, river boats and sometimes walking miles to reach another place on the red laterite road to get to another tributary and another boat, several days later we reached the village. He spoke English, Portuguese and Xingu and was happy, for a smallish fee, to take me along.Īnd this is where the Forsyte Saga comes in. I was lucky enough to find an Indian who had been a tour guide but was now returning to his village on a lake several hundred miles away.
It took me a few weeks to sort out a guide I could afford as I didn't want to join a tourist party and although previously my travels had been on my own, I wanted to leave the towns, the river boats, roads and really penetrate the jungle and obviously I couldn't do that on my own. I thought this would be my one and only chance to see the Amazon so I stuffed a backpack full of the necesssaries, abandoned the rest and got a bus to Belem at the mouth of the Amazon.Ī month later having explored Belem, Santarem and a few other small places I found myself in Manaus, 1,000 miles up the Amazon. I had just crossed the Atlantic with three friends on a yacht and got off in Fortaleza, Brazil. The first time I read this book I was going up the Amazon.
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This material was NOT merely scanned from an ink-and-paper book, like many Kindle e-books are. The End of the Chapter is the third trilogy in the series, continuing the story of the Forsytes as the old Victorian society declines further under the onslaught of the Edwardian era. Written after "the great earthquake", as Galsworthy puts it, of World War I, the second Forsyte trilogy speaks of the changes in British society of the 1920s, depicted through the prism of the Forsyte family. The sympathetic and evocative picture it paints has made this trilogy.a classic.Ī Modern Comedy takes up where the Forsyte Saga leaves off, following the lives of the next generation of Forsytes: Jon Forsyte and Fleur Mont, living with the legacy of their parents misadventures.
Following the life of the duty-bound but passionless Soames Forsyte, stuck in an unhappy marriage with his quick-witted and sensitive wife Irene, his domineering uncle Old Jolyon, and his libertine cousin Young Jolyon, it exposes fully the realities of Victorian society of the day. Galsworthy's masterpiece, The Forsyte Saga focuses on an extended upper middle class family in Late Victorian and Edwardian England.
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