In Trouble Again: A Journey Between Orinoco and the Amazon

Redmond O'Hanlon. Vintage Books USA, $13.95 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-679-72714-9

The author traveled uncharted rivers in a dugout canoe, on a four-month journey to Venezuelan Amazonia. His intention: to meet--and ``party'' with--the Yanomami tribe, reputedly the most violent people on earth. ``His descriptions of landscape and animals are superb . . . O'Hanlon's approach to travel borders on the lunatic,'' said PW. (Mar.)

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