PORTRAIT OF A MAN CALLED C.
#travelshortsHe’s got long salt and pepper hair with sunburnt curls, framing a face with sublime features.
C. is in his sixties, but his gaze and smile give him eternal youthfulness. With dark brown, golden, chocolate skin, yellowed teeth from chewing rapé, a slender and graceful body, and long, thin fingers, he's a man of the jungle. Listening to him speak of his adventures is like travelling deep into the Amazon and discovering its magic, plants, virtues, and spirits.
The jungle's calling him, he tells me... I just hope he doesn't get lost in it.
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Image credits: Francisco de Orellana's 1541 expedition down the Amazon River, American engraving, 1848. Via Britannica.com