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Survival Skillset

Lesson 6 of 10

Following water out of the forest: the Peruvian Amazon and the Tuichi River

40 min

"Follow water downhill and you will find people." It is one of the oldest pieces of survival advice, and in some places it is true. Streams join into rivers, rivers carry boats, and people build their homes, farms and huts beside them. In other places, water leads into gorges, over waterfalls and into swamps, and following it kills people. Module 1 calls this a judgement call, not a rule.

In this lesson

  • The Peruvian Amazon, 1971
  • What happened
  • The decisions
  • What the land offered
  • What we can learn
  • The Tuichi River, Bolivia, 1981
  • The two cases together
  • Check yourself
  • Key points

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