South American Jungle Tales, by Horacio Quiroga
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In South America there is a river called the Yabebirì; and it flows through the city of Misiones. In this river there are many rays, a kind of mud fish like the salt-water skate; and the river, indeed, gets its name from them: “Yabebirì” means the “river of ray fish.” The ray is a wide, flat fish with a long, slender tail. The tail is very bony; and when it strikes you it cuts, and leaves poison in the wound.
South American Jungle Tales, by Horacio Quiroga- Amazon Sales Rank: #9241950 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-18
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .15" w x 6.00" l, .23 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 66 pages
About the Author J. David Danielson (1916–2010) was Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Hartford, Connecticut.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Alligators, Bees, Parrots and much more By sally tarbox Eight stories set around the Yabebiri and Parana rivers (Argerntina), and aimed at the younger audience, although with little moments of humour that endear them to the adult.I particularly liked the ‘Just So Story’ format of “How the Flamingoes got their Stockings”. When the snakes hold a ball, the flamingoes go shopping for new stockings but are unsuccessful until the mischievous owls fool them with some snakeskins of their recent prey. Insulted by this gesture, their hosts bite them – and that’s why they stand in the water for hours: to relieve the pain.Other stories have a human element: in “How the Rays Defended the Ford”, a man stops another from dynamiting the fish. One day the rays in turn save him when he is fleeing from a group of hungry panthers to an island in quite a vividly written passage:“The rays plunged their stingers into the panthers’ feet and at each prick the panthers would send up the most bloodcurdling roars. Meanwhile the panthers were clawing and kicking at the rays, making frightful splashes in the water and tossing up ray fish by the barrel full. Hundreds and hundreds of rays were caught and torn by the panthers’ claws and went floating down the Yabebiri which was soon all tinged with ray blood.”The older reader will be entertained by the naivety of “The Blind Doe”, where the mother of said deer decides to take her daughter to “a man who was skilful with remedies. This man was a hunter and traded in venison. But, from all reports, she concluded that he was quite a kind-hearted person.”Quite an enjoyable little collection of stories.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Great Teller of Tales By green chili reader Early translation of several short stories by a marvelous South American writer who is frequently compared to Kipling and sometimes to Poe. The Margaret Sayers Peden translation of The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories are generally superior to this effort, but they do tend to focus on the monstrous human dimension of Quiroga's oeuvre rather than, as here, on the animals who are so well adapted to their jungle environment. Easy recommendation is to read both.
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