After careful reading, I noticed a strong shift in the way I see this book, after seeing how Davi travelled to Sao Paolo. It’s very clear in this book that He’s implementing his knowledge of the  forest, and the skills he has. I like his journey, and his life story. I think its great that his stories were documented, and his travels with Albert. Davi’s very careful when choosing where he wants to go, saying on page 319, “other xapiri also accompanied me to defend  me, such as the caiman spirit, with his big machete, or the spirit of Xinarumari, the master of cotton, with his venomous tail, Without their protections, distant hostile shamans’ evil spirits could have weakened me, and made my head spin with dizziness, or even made the airplane carrying me fall down.” After reading about his trip to Europe, you can see humans were viewed differently and he visited, and how we think of our own culture is not how other cultures perceive “English speaking countries” are. Sometimes you just need a little reminder of where you come from by experiencing other people’s opinions of you. I think its accurate when Davi describes humans as possessing a great number of machines and factories yet still, it isn’t enough, describing humans as very violent, or killing each other for money, but the crime in south America is not good? Isnt it in Brasil where the crime rates are high? I don’t know why, as an indigenous person sometimes he really likes to other people and his ideas of other cultures are one sided. But nonetheless everyone has a right to their own outlooks. He can look back at his time traveling the world, and can say he is a well traveled

It’s a great read, and it’s a long book but worth reading for most people. Just because you might think this book is not for you does not mean you will not enjoy this book. You can think something but once you see for yourself, you might be surprised how much you enjoy it, I think if someone reads this as a keepsake, then they are doing they’re  small part to raise awareness of amazonian indigenous peoples.