Cut off from civilisation, the Guiana Highlands that border Brazil are one of the least known regions on earth, until recently believed to be the location of El Dorado and the fabled tribe of Amazon warrior women. Inspired by young French explorer Raymond Maufrais, who went missing in the area in 1950, adventurer John Harrison and his wife Heather retrace his journey into the Amazon, with only a canoe and a shotgun for company. Unaided and off the map, they encounter jaguars and poisonous frogs, are threatened by malaria and almost lose their way entirely. This is an incredible story of a couple's gruelling survival in the Amazonian wild. AUTHOR: John Harrison's first book, Up the Creek: An Amazon Adventure was described as 'an admirable book by an admirable man' in the Daily Telegraph and a National Geographic documentary was about him in 1991.