"The best epic saga of the prewar period"
Czesław Miłosz: History of Polish Literature
AD 1726: a Polish-Virginian renegade becomes the war chief of an Orinoco Indian tribe.
Take a walk on the wild side.
A strange and wonderful people in a strange and wonderful land. In 1726, a Virginian privateer was sunk in the Caribbean and its only survivor, a Polish-Virginian running form the law, washed ashore on an uninhabited island. At first, he dreamed of nothing other than returning to "civilization," but Fate had other plans. It put the Arawak Indians in his path who then, in time, became his chosen nation. Spanish chronicles record the presence of a white warrior among the Arawaks and the Arawaks still tell tales of their White Jaguar. This is his story.
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The Author.
Arkady Fiedler (1894-1985) was a Polish writer, journalist and adventurer. He studied philosophy and natural science at in Cracow and and later in Poznań and Leipzig. He traveled widely but the Guyanas and the Orinoco have been his special love where visited repeatedly staying for months in the jungle. He wrote 32 books that have been translated into 23 languages and sold over 10 million copies. His most famous and popular book, written in 1942, was Squadron 303 about the legendary Kościuszko Squadron fighting during the Battle of Britain; it sold over 1.5 million copies.
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