"A search for a wild people in a last wilderness on an expedition of a sort that is scarcely conceivable anymore. A true adventure, well-researched, well-written, exciting, and authentic -- a great pleasure to read."- Peter Matthiessen, author of National Book Award winners Shadow Country and The Snow Leopard "Scott Wallace has brought us a story of jungle exploration written with such urgency and grace that after three days of reading his book non-stop, I feel as if I've just emerged from the forest myself. This is a riveting and brilliant book blessed with the pacing of a novel but carrying the great weight of world events. This is journalism at its very, very best." -Sebastian Junger, author of War and The Perfect Storm "Scott Wallace has written an absolutely wonderful and gripping account of his journey into the Amazon. Along the way, he shines an important light on this fascinating land and its still unknown people."- David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z " The Unconquered may be the most engrossing and profound recounting of an Amazon adventure since that long ago masterpiece, Tristes Tropiques .
" - Francisco Goldman, author of Say Her Name "THE UNCONQUERED is not only a riveting story-crowded with vivid detail and heart-stopping moments-but a first-hand account of a rare and critically important expedition. Wallace and the men with whom he traveled risked their lives navigating the territory of the flecheiros , one of the most isolated and dangerous tribes in the Amazon. The story Wallace returned with will keep you up at night."- Candice Millard, author of The River of Doubt "Exquisitely observed and beautifully told, THE UNCONQUERED ranks among the very best of modern adventure stories, even more so for the profound questions about man and nature that it explores."- Scott Anderson, author of Triage and The Man Who Tried to Save the World "Scott Wallace takes the reader on an extraordinary trip into the heart of the unconquered Amazon. Wallace writes fluidly and with great verve about an amazing adventure, a trip informed by Wallace''s deep knowledge of the history and anthropology of the Amazon. And it''s quite a ride!"- Peter Bergen, author of The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict between America and Al-Qaed a and The Osama Bin Laden I Know "An astonishing account that reveals all the drama, passions, contradictions, and dangers inherent in the quixotic yet essential devotions of a cadre that for more than a century has truly lived by the motto, ''die if you must, but never kill.''" - Wade Davis, author of Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest "Scott Wallace brings back such riches from this expedition: great characters, deep paradoxes, adventure, wonder, pain.
What a yarn! This consummately remote world, the Amazon wilderness, comes thickly to life on the page."- William Finnegan, author of Cold New World and A Complicated War "As riveting as one of the old explorer''s classic memoirs, THE UNCONQUERED left me with a sense of awe that we share this world with people like the flecheiros - and profoundly moved by the inevitability of their extinction. This is a one-of-a-kind book about a one-of-a kind experience, and it is difficult to imagine that there will be many more like it." - Jon Lee Anderson, author of Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life "Scott Wallace leads us through the uncharted tributaries of the Amazon to the edge of one of the last uncontacted communities in the world, the ferociously private and enigmatic flecheiros -- the "People of the Arrow." Along the way, we meet a cast of fascinating and complex characters, the star of which is the brilliant and charismatic explorer Sydney Possuelo. I''ve read as many works on this topic as I can find. This is the best by far." - Mark Dowie, author of Conservation Refugees: The Hundred Year Conflict Between Global Conservation and Native Peoples.