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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Paolo Greer. Timecode In: 00:00:30. Timecode out: 00:30:02. Notes: Paolo Greer's life; Peru's Transoceanic Highway; Gold prospecting. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Anton Seimon. Timecode In: 00:31:13. Timecode out: 00:52:42. Notes: Peru's Transoceanic Highway. Subject 3: (Interview). Subtitle: Peter Smith. Timecode In: 00:57:00. Timecode out: 01:07:02. Notes: Geography, mapping, and GPS. Subject 4: Red Junglefowl (Domestic type) (Gallus gallus (Domestic type)). Timecode In: 01:09:16. Timecode out: 01:09:19. Subject 5: (Interview). Subtitle: Victor Hugo Pisango. Timecode In: 01:12:35. Timecode out: 01:28:16. Notes: Peru's Transoceanic Highway; Business in Puerto Maldonado. Equipment Notes: Decoded MS Stereo. NPR/NGS RADIO EXPEDITIONS Show: PERU Log of DAT #: 6 Engineer: Leo del Aguila Date: July 2000 ng= not good ok= okay g = good vg = very good JN: JOHN NIELSEN AS: ANTON SElMON PG: PAOLO GREER LD: LEO DEL AGUILA PS: PETER SMITH VP: VICTOR HUGO PISANGO :07 LD: ok here we are. We are in Peru, in PM, this is DAT 6. The same mic setup, we're at the hotel. And here we go. Name rank and serial number PG: Paolo Greer. Live in Fairbanks, Alaska, been coming to Peru for 26 years. This is my 8th trip, average 8-9 months per trip. JN: and you always come to the same Place? PG: well I didn't the first time. First time I came down and wandered down one coast to Tierra del Fuego and up the other and cut thru the Amazon and cut thru central America. On the second trip in 78 I'd already started researching the carabaya sandia in the states, and since then I've kinda been a monomaniac, I keep coming back to the same area. JN: why? PG: I like to research and I like to explore, and when I started researching ...most of my best research has been in the states. Library of congress, 7 trips, american archives, austin, texas, many others. And this legend of the carabaya kept coming up, and I had to figure out where it was. And when I found out I just kept coming back. It's the ancient gold fields of the inca, the spaniards took it over right after the conquest, and its kept gbusy ever since. The andes up and then the great range of the amazon slams into them. It's a soft bedrock and what you get is a precipitous topography of what they call "eyebrow of the jungle." And in that eyebrow of the jungle is the carabaya sandia. So ostensibly I prospect, but I don't care if! find gold. I like looking for it, its more like don quixote looking for the holy grail. It could be a gold mine, a jesuit mission, theres an old hermit I like to visit in the jungle I go and stay with. It doesn't pay a cent but it's a good way of trading my belly for a beard and just keepin my intellect working, my curiosity. 2:36 JN: you're a prospector for the history of gold in a way. PG: prospector for the history of gold. I have found gold, actually a number of times. And when I have ...theres a difference between finding gold and finding gold that you can mine ...I've turned it over to the locals every time. When I've made maps out of my aerial photos, I've showed em how to get there. When I go down to the jungle I've used aerial photos extensively and so when we go off trail I'm the guide. Although those folks are tougher than I am, esp after these many years, I chew enuf coca leaf to keep a Budweiser horse in fodder, that helps. So I keep along as best I can, I say theres the gold and heres how you work it, they say thanks. They used to call me gringo, now they call me tio, uncle. And I don't know, maybe someday I'll file a claim, but I'll believe it when I see it. JN: so when we were driving down that road, we were passing jungles that had amazing things inside them. Jungles that were the source or rainforests, excuse me. We were passing rainforests that are the stuff ofle... (Notes truncated)
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- Red Junglefowl (Domestic type) Gallus gallus (Domestic type)
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- Cataloged
- 23 Dec 2009 - Ben Brotman
- Digitized
- 22 Dec 2009 - Ben Brotman
- Edited
- 23 Dec 2009 - Ben Brotman