Solving the Mystery of the Boiling River

Overheard at National Geographic

National Geographic

Science, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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As a boy growing up in Peru, Andrés Ruzo recalls his grandfather’s stories about the horrors Spanish conquistadores encountered in the Amazon, including a “boiling river.” Years later, Ruzo, a National Geographic Explorer, journeys into the Amazon to try to find the waterway. For more information on this episode, visit nationalgeographic.com/overheard. Want more? Read Andrés’s book: The Boiling River: Adventure and Discovery in the Amazon. Also explore: Curious what you can do to help the river’s ecosystem? Go to www.boilingriver.org. For subscribers: Read a Q&A with Andrés to learn more about the communities that live around Shanay-Timpishka and the theories scientists explored to understand why the river boils. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sam Mendes presents Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, an audible original drama.
0:05.6	The young gentleman's name would be...
0:08.3	Oliver. Oliver Twist.
0:10.7	...with Brian Cox as Fagan.
0:12.9	What have you seen? Street boy.
0:14.9	Nicola Cochlan as Nancy and Daniel Caluia as Bill Sykes.
0:19.3	Oh, look at me like a hound of my noise!
0:21.3	I love you, baby!
0:22.3	...with original music by Dan Gillespie Cells.
0:25.7	Subscription required, see audible.co.uk for terms.
0:35.6	My grandfather, my dad's dad, he was just a really fantastic storyteller.
0:40.7	There's just one story that he would tell about Baititi.
0:43.9	Baititi is in Peru what we call Eldorral, right?
0:46.5	The Golden City.
0:47.6	So imagine this big mysterious city made entirely of gold hidden deep in the Amazon.
0:54.4	That's National Geographic Explorer Andres Russo.
0:57.7	When the Spaniards come in to Peru, first they encounter the Inca.
1:02.2	They... there's the 40 years of fighting between the Spanish and the Inca until the Inca
1:07.2	Empire is finally conquered by the Spanish conquistadors.
1:10.4	And it's the story takes place after that.
1:13.3	So the Inca have now been conquered.
1:15.7	Their sacred temples, sacred sites have been, you know, desecrated.
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