PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
A.J. Lees is a professor of neurology at the National Hospital, London. He is the author of several books, including Mentored by a Madman- The William Burroughs Experiment, published by Notting Hill Editions.
This is a book about daydreams, melancholy and nostalgia in the very best sense. It is also a dramatic travelogue, from boyhood fantasy about an imagined Brazil to its flawed but life-transforming reality. It is a poetic meditation on time past and present, beautifully written and expertly composed. -Andrew Hussey This book is about the quest for a place that, like the mythical Lake Parima on ancient maps of South America, is only an illusion. Following in the maddening footsteps of the lost explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett, Andrew Lees explores his own life, and his longing for the deepest places of the mind and the remotest places on Earth. The trip is beautiful even if, in the end, that place is nowhere to be found. -Hector Abad What begins as a personal reflection on the western world's endless fascination with Amazonia and its mysteries, develops in a most unexpected way, as Andrew Lees' prose becomes our Virgil, taking the reader for a leap into the unknown, way further than any other expedition has ever dreamed of. -Ciro Guerra, director of the Academy Award-nominated Embrace of the Serpent
