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lukas
, October 06, 2015
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A mixture of travelogue and history that recalls Bruce Chatwin, Stephen Minta's "Aguirre" recreates the journey of the Basque explorer who was the inspiration for Werner Herzog's "Aguirre, the Wrath of the God." Herzog's film, which starred the bat crap insane Klaus Kinski, didn't try to be historically accurate, where Minta combs through documents to piece together a compelling, if frightening, portrait of an explorer gone mad. I often mind in books like this, the author's own journey can be intrusive, but Minta knows exactly how much of himself to put into the story. A fascinating story that is even bloodier and stranger than the film.
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