
L’Uomo di Fuoco
CAPITOLO I. Sulle coste del Brasile.
CAPITOLO II. Gli antropofagi.
CAPITOLO III. L’assalto degli antropofagi.
CAPITOLO IV. Alla costa.
CAPITOLO V. Nelle foreste brasiliane.
CAPITOLO VI. Il giboia delle paludi.
CAPITOLO VII. L’assalto del «jacarè».
CAPITOLO VIII. La zattera vivente.
CAPITOLO IX. Assediato dai pecari.
A battered caravela fights its way through a relentless 16th‑century storm, the sea crashing against its fragile hull as the crew clings to hope. The tempest drives them toward an unfamiliar Brazilian shoreline, a place still shrouded in mystery after Cabral’s recent discovery. With the timeon broken and sails shredded, the vessel teeters on the brink of total ruin.
At the helm stands the proud and impulsive Alvaro de Correa, a young nobleman far from his intended destination in the Gulf of Mexico. He watches the horizon, aware that the dense, untamed forests beyond the cliffs hide tribes notorious for devouring strangers. The sailors, exhausted and frightened, scramble to keep the ship from being smashed against the rocks.
Against the roar of waves and the looming threat of savage inhabitants, the crew must summon every ounce of courage and ingenuity to survive the first harrowing night. Their desperate struggle sets the stage for an epic tale of adventure, danger, and the indomitable human spirit.
Language
it
Duration
~10 hours (582K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
Italy: Donath, 1904.
Credits
Barbara Magni and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2023-06-16
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

1862–1911
Adventure, danger, and distant worlds fill these classic stories by the Italian writer who fired generations of readers’ imaginations. Best known for creating the pirate Sandokan and the swashbuckling Black Corsair, he became one of Italy’s great popular storytellers.
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