Edward Docx's Journey to the Amazon

Monday 4th Apr 2011
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Edward Docx's electrifying new novel leaves the St Petersburg of Self Help behind for the depths of the jungle.

Read in the Observer about his travels to the Amazon and the inspiration behind The Devil's Garden. Did you know that there remain 100 uncontacted tribes in the Amazon, and that the forest produces ‘one breath in every five’ of the world’s oxygen? It’s awe-inspiring stuff, and the novel is just as extraordinary…

Read the article.

Set deep in the South American jungle, Edward Docx's brooding movel, with its Conradian echoes, pits westers 'progress' against primeval nature... Beautifully crafted

Sunday Times


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