In Southern Light Author:Alex Shoumatoff A book in 2 parts. In the first, the author travels with a friend up a large, but seldom-visited tributary of the Amazon, the Nhamunda, in search of any clues about the eponymous Amazons themselves. He finds mostly caboclos, mixed race people who live off fishing, hunting, and a little farming when possible, and the last remnants of the Indian p... more »eoples who lived in the region for centuries. The second, less-focussed journey is in the former Zaire, now Congo. Though the current wars and massacres had not begun, the reader gets a strong impression of the crumbling, decaying society that existed under Mobutu. The author travels by truck, by riverboat, and through the jungle on foot with some BaMbuti (pygmies).« less