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Hard Amazon Rain
Burned-out art therapist Dianti Robertson dreams of building a library for an Amerindian village on the upper Amazon in Peru. She’s searching for a feeling of completion, and the library is a project completely different from her ongoing work with troubled children in America.
Roaming the the Amazon River, English eco-activist Christian St. Cloud sails his trimaran, the Rio Vida, wherever he perceives a threat to the Amerindian way of life, opposing those whose greed would strip the people of all their natural resources. Christian is haunted by having been unable to save nine indigenous villages from being destroyed by a dam project in Venezuela.
Dianti and Christian strongly disagree on how best to aid indigenous people. Complicating their outspoken differences is the intensity of their unspoken physical attraction.
Dutch soldier-of-fortune Kees Wijntuin and a ruthless gold consortium threaten the area where Dianti lives. When two young Amerindians are kidnapped by the Dutchman and sold into slavery at the mining camp of Santo Ignacio, Dianti and Christian must join forces to rescue them.
Roaming the the Amazon River, English eco-activist Christian St. Cloud sails his trimaran, the Rio Vida, wherever he perceives a threat to the Amerindian way of life, opposing those whose greed would strip the people of all their natural resources. Christian is haunted by having been unable to save nine indigenous villages from being destroyed by a dam project in Venezuela.
Dianti and Christian strongly disagree on how best to aid indigenous people. Complicating their outspoken differences is the intensity of their unspoken physical attraction.
Dutch soldier-of-fortune Kees Wijntuin and a ruthless gold consortium threaten the area where Dianti lives. When two young Amerindians are kidnapped by the Dutchman and sold into slavery at the mining camp of Santo Ignacio, Dianti and Christian must join forces to rescue them.
318 pages, ebook
First published January 10, 2014
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Carolyn V. Hamilton
26 books22 followersCarolyn V. Hamilton is a multi-genre author, free-lance journalist, workshop leader and Success Coach for Memoir Writers. Professionally trained as an illustrator and graphic designer, she spent over 3 decades working as a marketing executive and copywriter in the real world of “Mad Men.”
In 2009 she founded www.adventuress-travel-magazine.com, the digital magazine “for women over 50 doing fun things”, focusing on essay stories from women about their personal travel adventures.
Carolyn V. Hamilton is a graduate of Antioch University Seattle and her other adventures have included two years’ service as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer and a stint (in her “younger days”) as a Playboy Bunny.
When she is not traveling, she resides in Cuenca, Ecuador.
Visit her writers' website at www.carolynvhamilton.com and her publisher's website at www.swifthousepress.com!
In 2009 she founded www.adventuress-travel-magazine.com, the digital magazine “for women over 50 doing fun things”, focusing on essay stories from women about their personal travel adventures.
Carolyn V. Hamilton is a graduate of Antioch University Seattle and her other adventures have included two years’ service as a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer and a stint (in her “younger days”) as a Playboy Bunny.
When she is not traveling, she resides in Cuenca, Ecuador.
Visit her writers' website at www.carolynvhamilton.com and her publisher's website at www.swifthousepress.com!
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December 25, 2019
Well written, but boring
The author delivers a solid message with regard to preservation of indigenous cultures and the Amazon rainforest in this story, weaving it in. The writing is adept and generally error-free, but the story plods. I didn't dislike the story, but it couldn't hold my interest.
The author delivers a solid message with regard to preservation of indigenous cultures and the Amazon rainforest in this story, weaving it in. The writing is adept and generally error-free, but the story plods. I didn't dislike the story, but it couldn't hold my interest.
May 29, 2017
A great culture shock adventure!
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