The Riverbones
Stumbling After Eden in the Jungles of Suriname
A young man uncovers myth, history, and murder while searching for the soul of an unknown and magical place.
Andrew Westoll spent a year living the dream of every aspiring primatologist: following wild troops of capuchin monkeys through the remote Central Suriname Nature Reserve, the largest tract of pristine rainforest left on earth. But that was only the beginning.
Westoll left the world of science altogether when he departed Suriname six years ago. But the country itself stayed with him and became a strange obsession. Nestled above Brazil and the Upper Amazon Basin, Suriname has a legitimate claim to the title The Last Eden, as ninety percent of this mysterious country is covered in thick, neo-tropical jungle. Westoll read everything he could…
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October 27, 2009
Adventurer, scientist and journalist Andrew Westoll has lived the dream of every aspiring primatologist. At 23, he spent a year following wild troops of capuchin monkeys through the remote Central Suriname Nature Reserve, the largest tract of pristine rainforest left on earth.
Nestled above Brazil and the Upper Amazon Basin, Suriname is the least travelled country in South America and one of the world's great ecological secrets. Although many untouched places have been hailed as The Last Eden, Suriname has a legitimate claim to the title. Ninety percent of this mysterious country is covered in thick, neo-tropical jungle, with a population density similar to Russian Siberia.
Five years after his first adventure there, Westoll returned to to satisfy a long-standing fixation, on…
