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Into the Peruvian Amazon: ‘I’m going to show you good things. Let’s start with an anaconda’
It is an absolute truth, hard-wired into every explorer’s tales, that the Amazon is deadly dangerous. If the electric eels, piranhas, sting rays and caimans don’t get you, the hordes of biting insects and snakes will. Every living thing is ready to devour …