Time Is Short and the Water Rises
By John Walsh
1967
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4.50
Average Rating
232
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Operation Gwamba is the story of how one man's daring and resourcefulness saved 10,000 forest animals from certain death. Operation Gwamba began when the International Society for the Protection of Animals learned that thousands of jungle animals were trapped behind the new Afobaka Dam in Surinam, formerly Dutch Guiana. The Society sent John Walsh, a field officer trained in rescue techniques by the Massachusetts SPCA. What followed was one of the 20th century's most extraordinary adventure stories. Fighting time, Walsh recruited native Bushnegroes, descendants of the rebellious slaves who had escaped to the jungle generations before. He learned their language and they became friends and allies. Ranged against him were a host of enemies, from vampire bats and piranha fish to torrential rains and jungle fever. And always there was the greatest enemy of all—the rising water that threatened to destroy man and animal.
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