A European best-seller since 1954, finally in English. An extraordinary tale set in an extraordinary land.The archives of one the oldest Spanish cities in the Americas, Cumaná, in today's Venezuela, record a strange of a European renegade named Yan/John/ who in the early eighteenth century "went native" and rose to prominence as a military commander among the Orinoco Indians. His name was John Bober. He was a third-generation Polish-American from Virginia. And his adventure began as a castaway on an uninhabited island off the Spanish Main. This is his story. Arkady Fielder (1894-1985) was a Polish writer, journalist, and adventurer. He wrote 32 books translated into 23 languages. He traveled broadly but had a special attachment to the region of the Orinoco where he returned repeatedly, and to the Arawak Indians of the delta from whom he first heard the tale of the the White Jaguar.