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Devil Country
"The most unnerving sound I have ever heard: primitive, bestial, malignant"
The corpse of a huge red-haired ape-main haunted David Miles for seventy years.
Now Peter, his great-nephew, with four companions including a lovely young girl, battle the violent world of the Chilean Andes in an action-packed adventure to find this mysterious link with prehistoric man.
Their hair-raising search ends at the bottom of a raging volcano when nightmare fantasies turn to terrifying reality...
The corpse of a huge red-haired ape-main haunted David Miles for seventy years.
Now Peter, his great-nephew, with four companions including a lovely young girl, battle the violent world of the Chilean Andes in an action-packed adventure to find this mysterious link with prehistoric man.
Their hair-raising search ends at the bottom of a raging volcano when nightmare fantasies turn to terrifying reality...
- GenresScience Fiction
188 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1976
About the author
Ian Cameron
143 books10 followersPseudonym of Donald Gordon Payne.
Donald Gordon Payne was an English author of adventure novels and travel books.
Donald Gordon Payne was born in Denmark Hill in South East London in January 1924. His father, Francis, was a New Zealander, who served in the First World War with the ANZACS. His mother was Evelyn Rodgers, a nurse during the Great War.
He was educated at Dulwich College Preparatory School and then at Charterhouse School. As a child he travelled with his parents to New Zealand and parts of the East coast of Australia – an experience which left him with a lifelong affection for these countries.
Deferring his place at Corpus Christi College Oxford, he enlisted in the Fleet Air Arm in 1943. After training at Sealand, near Liverpool, and at Kingston, Ontario, Canada he was awarded his wings and joined Swordfish Squadron 811 and later 835. He took part in Atlantic and Russian convoys in 1944 and 1945 as a Swordfish pilot, mainly on anti-submarine duties.
After the war he studied at Oxford and became an editor and ghost writer for the London based publishing firm of Christopher Johnson. From there he moved into a full-time career as a writer.
Using James Vance Marshall as a pseudonym, Payne wrote such books as A River Ran Out of Eden (1962) and White-Out (1999). His most famous book is probably Walkabout (1959), first published as The Children and later made into a movie starring Jenny Agutter.
Payne has also used Ian Cameron and Donald Gordon as pseudonyms. As Donald Gordon, he published, among others, Riders of the Storm (2002), an official history of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. As Ian Cameron, he wrote The Lost Ones (1961), later dramatized by Disney as The Island at the Top of the World, as well as The Mountain at the Bottom of the World (1975) and The White Ship (1975).
He disliked publicity of any kind, preferring to stay out of the limelight. During his long and distinguished publishing career he made few author appearances, notably for the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Lifeboat Institution and the Reader's Digest.
He lived in Surrey, England, and had four sons and one daughter. He passed away on 22 August, 2018 at the age of 94.
Donald Gordon Payne was an English author of adventure novels and travel books.
Donald Gordon Payne was born in Denmark Hill in South East London in January 1924. His father, Francis, was a New Zealander, who served in the First World War with the ANZACS. His mother was Evelyn Rodgers, a nurse during the Great War.
He was educated at Dulwich College Preparatory School and then at Charterhouse School. As a child he travelled with his parents to New Zealand and parts of the East coast of Australia – an experience which left him with a lifelong affection for these countries.
Deferring his place at Corpus Christi College Oxford, he enlisted in the Fleet Air Arm in 1943. After training at Sealand, near Liverpool, and at Kingston, Ontario, Canada he was awarded his wings and joined Swordfish Squadron 811 and later 835. He took part in Atlantic and Russian convoys in 1944 and 1945 as a Swordfish pilot, mainly on anti-submarine duties.
After the war he studied at Oxford and became an editor and ghost writer for the London based publishing firm of Christopher Johnson. From there he moved into a full-time career as a writer.
Using James Vance Marshall as a pseudonym, Payne wrote such books as A River Ran Out of Eden (1962) and White-Out (1999). His most famous book is probably Walkabout (1959), first published as The Children and later made into a movie starring Jenny Agutter.
Payne has also used Ian Cameron and Donald Gordon as pseudonyms. As Donald Gordon, he published, among others, Riders of the Storm (2002), an official history of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. As Ian Cameron, he wrote The Lost Ones (1961), later dramatized by Disney as The Island at the Top of the World, as well as The Mountain at the Bottom of the World (1975) and The White Ship (1975).
He disliked publicity of any kind, preferring to stay out of the limelight. During his long and distinguished publishing career he made few author appearances, notably for the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Lifeboat Institution and the Reader's Digest.
He lived in Surrey, England, and had four sons and one daughter. He passed away on 22 August, 2018 at the age of 94.
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
January 4, 2014
I read it at 9. It fascinated me, I re-read it a lot of times. A couple of years ago I came across it again, at my parents' house. I took it home and read it again. It gave me a sense of... semplicity. Plot, narration style, characters description: all seemed to me very simple. Nevertheless, it works perfectly, and the book is damned good. Just like some pop songs, very easy to hum, and some music expert says that they are trivial, but I think that it's much more difficult doing a good simple song (or book) than a very complicated one.
October 13, 2009
An interesting action adventure set in the Andes mountain range of South America, where a bunch of adventurers encountered a lost civilization of prehistoric man.
May 12, 2020
3,5
Ein Roman über die abenteuerliche Begegnung mit Vor-Menschen im chilenischen Hochgebirge. Eine sehr spannende Geschichte um eine wissenschaftliche Expedition mit spekulativen Ansatz. Mit einer fast obligatorischen Liebesgeschichte und etwas Zeitkolorit: Der Roman spielt während der Regierungszeit von Salvador Allende Anfang, die von ihm angestrebte Verstaatlichung der Kupferindustrie wird von einem Expeditionsmitglied als nationales Interesse gesehen.
Das Label Science-Fiction passt nicht ganz.
Ein Roman über die abenteuerliche Begegnung mit Vor-Menschen im chilenischen Hochgebirge. Eine sehr spannende Geschichte um eine wissenschaftliche Expedition mit spekulativen Ansatz. Mit einer fast obligatorischen Liebesgeschichte und etwas Zeitkolorit: Der Roman spielt während der Regierungszeit von Salvador Allende Anfang, die von ihm angestrebte Verstaatlichung der Kupferindustrie wird von einem Expeditionsmitglied als nationales Interesse gesehen.
Das Label Science-Fiction passt nicht ganz.
May 12, 2020
Excellent suspense novel! This one will keep you perched on the edge of your seat. Great character descriptions and a thrilling adventure set in the remote Andes mountains. What this team discovers there is nothing short of amazing. I read this novel over the course of a single day; couldn't put it down.
April 28, 2024
A group of 5 people go exploring in the remote Andes in the southernmost part of Chile, each for their own reasons. A student for the fun of it, a mountain climber who hopes to discover proof of an active volcanic cone, two Chileans who want to establish the true border of Chile with Argentina (and what mineral wealth lies on which side of the border), and a gruff old professor who seeks to find a tribe of pre-historical pre-humans.
Cameron wrote Island at the Top of the World (aka The Lost Ones) and this is a "sequel" to that. In Island they discover a lost group of Vikings, and in this story they go into unexplored territory to find the lost cavemen. A fun story that effectively weds a down to earth exploration story with a grand flight of fancy.
Cameron wrote Island at the Top of the World (aka The Lost Ones) and this is a "sequel" to that. In Island they discover a lost group of Vikings, and in this story they go into unexplored territory to find the lost cavemen. A fun story that effectively weds a down to earth exploration story with a grand flight of fancy.
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