BRAZILIAN EDEN

“Andrea Bayard here tells the story of her experiences whilst living among the primitive, completely naked tribes of Brazilian Indians in the great forest of the Matto Grosso.
“A very young and talented actress, she volunteered to accompany an allmale film unit to a region where no white woman had ever been before. The journey was a hazardous adventure in itself and the first days among the Matto Grosso tribes proved to be an even more gruelling trial of courage and determination.
“She saw life in the raw and death that came swiftly and suddenly amid the savagery and beauty of a land which is still uncharted. In her tense, at times humorous, and always event-packed, story, Andrea Bayard describes many of the strange customs and habits of a race which has never progressed beyond the club, bow and arrow, for whom the use of metal, or even stone, has yet to be discovered; and who never wear any form of clothing.
“She tells also of the film unit’s adventures deeper into the jungle, where they met Indians believed to be responsible for Colonel Fawcett’s death, and others who boasted of the white men they had killed. She saw a warrior clubbed to death in the excitement of a war dance, become “white mother” to an Indian boy, and was unwittingly and alarmingly betrothed to an Indian chief.
“Her stoy is as full of dangerous adventures as the rivers were of alligators and tiger fish.”