Amateur Naturalist: peru
Narrative Nonfiction, Travel humor
Draft 2 complete at 44,000 words
Overview
An adventure in the Peruvian Amazon, studying the lives of Macaws, and the humans there both on vacation and volunteering to study them.
Key marketable features / Target Audience
As the Amazon is in danger, being burned and logged, it is time we get a book that connects readers to this beautiful world in need.
Interested readers: College-educated Gen X and College-age Gen Y women interested in animals or fieldwork abroad, but not confidently at the professional level, will identify with my protagonist’s challenges.
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Series Potential
This would be #2: Misadventures with Macaws in the Peruvian Amazon
The intro chapter to the Peru story is available to read via: The Scarlet Leaf Review, January 2020.