2022 Season

"And now tell me, and tell me true: where have you been wandering, and in what countries have you travelled? Tell us of the peoples themselves, and of their cities – who were hostile, savage and uncivilised, and who hospitable and humane? Tell us why you are made so unhappy by the return of the Argave Danaans from Troy. The gods arranged all this and sent them their misfortunes in order that future generations might have something to sing about." -- The Odyssey Book VIII

"The hardships and privations which we were called on to endure were of a very minor order, the dangers which we ran were considerably less than those to be encountered on any arterial road during a heatwave; and if, in any part of this book, I have given a contrary impression, I have done so unwittingly … beyond the completion of a 3000 mile journey, mostly under amusing conditions, through a little known part of the world, and the discovery of one new tributary to a tributary to a tributary of the Amazon, nothing of importance was achieved." -- PETER FLEMING, Brazilian Adventure