The Embrace of Amazonia

The Embrace of Amazonia

This book is not a survival techniques manual. It describes how survival really happens in the wild jungle and in the South American cities that accompanied the expedition. Completely alone on a 7500 km journey by my own means. This is the truth.

“This expedition took me five years; several times I nearly died in the jungle. I hurt the people I loved, discovered friendships, they tried to kill me, I lived through everything alone, but I was not lonely. At the heart of every action I took was my connection with Nature.”

Philip Lhamsuren lives to travel. His biography as an explorer includes three major expeditions that took him into the wildest territories on the planet. His first great journey was eastward toward his Mongolian roots; after that he crossed ten thousand kilometers to the Pamirs, and in 2015 he set out for the vast Amazonia. Having spent his childhood in a refugee camp and a boarding school, and having trained in the ranks of the French Foreign Legion, his life has been marked by wandering alone and far from the beaten paths of the world, and by telling of them in his books „The Soul of Man“ and „The Forgotten Paths“. His style is vivid, wild, and perceptive, and his love of nature leads him to insights that modern man has a great need to understand.

„Life does not require you to be consistent, patient, or driven; life requires you to be aware of the consequences of every choice you make.“

„The Amazon jungle literally swallowed me. The footprints I left behind disappeared within seconds into the dense vegetation. In the countless streams I discovered the limits of my own endurance. Beneath the eternal shade of the trees I felt overwhelming fear and deep sorrow, childlike curiosity and intoxicating wonder, and I also came face to face with the destruction of our world. ”