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Under the Andes
Rex Stout
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Under the Andes was written by Rex Stout years whose knack for weaving a fantastic tale of mystery and adventure will have most readers anxious for the next phase of adventure at every turn. The story finds two brothers and a pretty female companion on a journey which eventually takes them to a series of underground caves under the Andes of South America, where they encounter a lost tribe of Incas who have apparently survived hundreds of years oblivious of the outside world. The apparent 'king' of the tribe has become infatuated with the fair-skinned female intruder of the group and, well, suffice it to say there's a lot of action, attempted escapes, heroism, and peculiar interactions between all, reminiscent of H. Rider Haggard with a touch of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Under the Andes was written by Rex Stout years whose knack for weaving a fantastic tale of mystery and adventure will have most readers anxious for the next phase of adventure at every turn. The story finds two brothers and a pretty female companion on a journey which eventually takes them to a series of underground caves under the Andes of South America, where they encounter a lost tribe of Incas who have apparently survived hundreds of years oblivious of the outside world. The apparent 'king' of the tribe has become infatuated with the fair-skinned female intruder of the group and, well, suffice it to say there's a lot of action, attempted escapes, heroism, and peculiar interactions between all, reminiscent of H. Rider Haggard with a touch of Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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"Harry!"
"Yes."
"Steady."
"Yes. I'm coming along. I say, we're closer, Paul."
I hesitated to agree with him, but finally there was no longer any doubt of it. His voice began to reach me almost in natural tones, which meant that we were near enough for the vibrations to carry without interference from the walls.
Nearer still it came; it was now only a matter of a few feet; Harry gave a cry of joy, and immediately afterward I heard his low gasp of terror and the sound of his wild scrambling to regain a foothold. In his excitement he had forgotten caution and had slipped to the edge of the water.
I dared not try to go to his assistance; so I crouched perfectly still and called to h. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
An interesting book; not at all what I was expecting. I was expecting something along the lines of an Edgar Rice Burroughs story, but (and I'm not sure why exactly) this reminded me more of H. Rider Haggard.
The story starts off a little slowly, giving us ample time to get to know the characters. We
A lost race type of story. It was all right but not outstanding. I though a lot of other writers have done it better, especially Howard, Burroughs, and Friel.
Before he hit gold with Nero Wolfe, Rex Stout wrote for popular but cheap pulp magazines beginning in the 1910's , scratching a living in that lowly work which high-brow critics said loudly, lacked literary merit. The pompous ones rather missed the obvious some were quite good better than the stiff
Because author Rex Stout is so closely associated with his most famous fictional character, housebound detective extraordinaire Nero Wolfe, fans may find it hard to believe that the Indiana-born writer ever wrote anything else. And that, I suppose, is understandable, seeing that between 1934 and 197
Early Rex Stout taking on a lost world tale popular at the time, You can see Nero Wolfe in Paul and Archie in Harry. Desiree is on Cramer. Mildly amusing with a dump truck load of Deex ex machina 2.5 stars.
H. Rider Haggard style adventure which put me in mind of The People of the Mist, though I didn't like it nearly as well. However, I'm always up for hidden lands adventures and this was quite enjoyable in its way.
This is Stout's second published novel, some 20 years before Nero Wolfe came into the world. This is a lost race story similar in tone to what H. Rider Haggard was writing at the time. Stout had a good idea, but got mired down by derivative writing. The action really didn't get started until at leas