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Venezuela’s unique table mountains have captivated writers for over a century. One of the most unusual accounts is by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who, inspired by fabulous stories of explorers of Roraima, gave play to his imagination in the rollicking 1912 tale The Lost World, in which dinosaurs roam the top of the plateau.
Plenty of travelers were in turn inspired by Conan Doyle’s story, including actor and author Brian Blessed, who tells how he fulfilled his childhood dream of visiting the ‘Lost World’ in his beautifully entertaining Quest for the Lost World.
Churún Merú, the Tallest Angel, by Ruth Robertson, is a report of the expedition to Auyantepui, during which the height of Angel Falls was measured for the first time, confirming its status as the world’s highest waterfall.
Mad White Giant, by Benedict Allen, is an exciting account of the young author’s trip from the Delta del Orinoco to the mouth of the Amazon River, and his experience with the jungle and its indigenous tribes along the way.
Redmond O’Hanlon’s In Trouble Again is a hilarious story of his four-month expedition in a dugout canoe through the upper Orinoco and the Amazon to the homelands of the Yanomami.
In The Hacienda: My Venezuelan Years, English-born author Lisa St Aubin De Teran writes with a healthy dose of dry humor of her extraordinary experience running a rural hacienda in the Venezuelan Andes.
The famous German geographer and botanist Alexander von Humboldt explored and studied various regions of Venezuela and describes it in his three-volume Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, 1799–1801. Volume No 2 covers the Venezuelan section of his journey. It may sound like a dry, scientific study, but it’s fascinating reading, full of amazing details.
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