The Lost Steps
A musicologist grinding out advertising scores in New York takes a museum commission to collect primitive instruments at the headwaters of a South American river. Each stage upstream strips off a layer of history, from the capital to the frontier town to the mission to a settlement founded by a man who calls himself the Adelantado, until he is keeping house in something like the Neolithic. Carpentier drew the route from his own journeys up the Orinoco in 1947.
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