Ok, aside from the jokes to Salgari for me was never a pleasant reading, especially as a child and forced me skip entire pages just to get in a hurry to finish. The places described are not the least attracted me because I've always been an admirer of our Alps and when I could not go on forever dreaming of the White Glacier, on the long walls of the Val Masino or orange sunset on the peaks of the Dolomites.
impressive but consider how these places have been described so accurately and not perfect by a person who had ever seen them. These are the islands where he was hiding Sandokan and are just a few miles. James Brooke's house in Kuching. Navigating the dense network of canals and river meanders Santubong and Sarawak it feels a bit 'Pirates of Malaysia. These pools of water in Australia call the billabong and are ideal for me to see fish ball, archery and emiranfidi.
In fact, the island of Sandokan, the one quoted by Salgari as Mompracem is located much further east, towards Sabah, Labuan in virtually and in front of Brunei. If you want to look on the map because you need to type the name Keraman Mompracem existed only in maps 800. Going back to the islands in Sarawak here the reef is quite rich but the visibility is not that of Lake Malawi and Lake Tanganyika because the materials carried by rivers create clouds of debris and plankton that much shorter field of view. In any event, the aggressiveness of the rompers resembles that of Neolamprologini of Tanganyika.
palms on the beach are very high and get a coconut is not very easy. Instead billabong prevails in the Nipah palm, Nypa fruticans, which together form the intricate mangrove landscapes. The palms also provide great results while the coconut is used in cooking, primarily in the laksa, the famous fish soup Malaysian. We Italians are easily recognizable in these parts because we are the only ones in the world to eat the white flesh of the coconut after drinking the liquid.
difficult to forget the silence and peace that reign in these islands, apart from the more populated rocky from birds. The forest is almost impenetrable if you can not hide the boat you are not even Colonel Fitzgerald cun Shah Dayak or the Journal.
Recent photos of Lake Como does not I have and I use the vintage. We are in the mid / late 80s and pants of the Billabong had already existed for fifteen years. Even if, however, I have always preferred to use the Oxbow Salgari and perhaps, as a good Verona, at short and would have preferred Tivano time and Peler of Lake Garda.
... Ah, I forgot to say that in Malaysia Salgari do not know anyone and just when I told him who he was and what he wrote, back when they were head-hunters, well ...., have made a very strange face, almost in disbelief, but in the end were pleased to be so popular among young readers Italians.
One last thing ... in the late 80s I met a Tamil boy who had opened a school of windsurfing on Lake Como. He told me a lot about his past life but I forgot to ask him if it was for a distant relative of Kammamuri.
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