While many are aware of TR's African adventure, his trip through the Amazon has received little attention. The story is well told, the writing is great, the editing is also excellent, and there is none of the constant recycling of images as is seen in the majority of documentaries out there. A major failing is the decision to process all the jungle scenes and recreations in black and white. Obviously the intention was to match the still images but was an idiotic decision - over an hour of jungle footage with zero color. Although unintended, the hunger to see potentially beautiful images rendered in variants of tar underlined the participants' desperate need to get out of that jungle. Frankly, it came to almost ruining the project. It certainly reduced the enjoyment by half.