Global Book Magazine

Global Book Magazine is a story item which was added in update V.1.0 to Green Hell.

Basic Info
The article by global book magazine is a review of Jake's book, The Spirits of Amazonia. It can be found on a wheelchair in Jake's second vision.

Transcription
A mediocre book only for enthusiasts

Here is one of the greatest challenges of medicine - how to ensure that aging societies remain in good health? Our lives are getting longer, but the older we get, the more vulnerable we become to various ailments and sicknesses. In his book “The Spirits of Amazonia” Jake Higgins attempts to entice the readers with a story about natives who allegedly never get sick. However, those who have brought the book hoping for a recipe for a magical remedy, are in for a bitter disappointment.

Until recently, the Yabahuaca tribe lived in complete isolation. Jake Higgins was the first to find them and, supposedly, learn their secrets. If that's the case, he isn't sharing them in his book. Instead, Higgins is skirting around the subject, every several pages assuring us with great vigor of the unusual immunity of the Yabahuaca, but failing to provide any details. He entices us with descriptions of herbs and fungi that eventually turn out not to have any unusual properties. Or he presents ritual medicinal procedures that to a reader with access to modern medicine seem to be bringing more harm than good. It's hard to say whether the author wasn't able to put his thoughts on paper in an efficient manner or failed to encourage the natives to reveal the truth - or if this whole “eternal health” hype was simply a cheap marketing trick.

We already know what's not in the book. So, what *is*? Mostly descriptions of everyday life of the natives inhabiting the jungle, who have no electricity or internet access, and use primitive tools. While clearly interesting, their customs, culture and religion are not as shockingly different from the ways of other similar tribes as to justify calling Higgins's expedition revelatory. One might feel compelled to ask whether it was worth it to disrupt the peace of these people only to write a book with so little to offer.

The book can therefore be recommended only to those passionate about the culture of South American indigenous people and enthusiasts of long-lost civilizations. Without a doubt the customs of natives cut off from modern technology can be fascinating to enthusiasts. The rest of the readers are in for a disappointment.