Reflections of a traveling veterinarian
I was sitting in Gunnar’s cottage in the middle of the Swedish countryside. A white layer of snow had covered the landscape outside and there were only a few days left until Christmas. Thick chunks of elk filet were frying in a pan, next to green beans from last summer’s harvest, while a potato …
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It was when the waters of the Rio Negro tried and failed to mix with that of the Solimões, to form the mighty Amazon, that we saw them for the first time – hunting dolphins, a whole pod of them. These clever mammals were taking advantage of a phenomenon that was once described as …
Senhora Silva might not have been much taller than five feet, but she was running a “tight ship” in her little supermarket on a small Balsa wood float, on the Parana do Mamori, one of the many contributories to the Amazon just South of Manaus. Together with Josef and João, my companions, we had …
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