Lethem
Main town of the Rupununi savannah on Guyana’s Brazilian border; in Life on Air the Zoo Quest team’s base for catching anteaters and anacondas.
At a glance
| Source | Author | Role | In one line |
|---|---|---|---|
| Life on Air | David Attenborough | journey waypoint | The Zoo Quest team’s base for catching anteaters and anacondas. |
Life on Air — David Attenborough (2002)
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Teddy Melville, who ran the hotel at Lethem, took us under his wing.
- Role: journey waypoint
- In the book: Lethem, the main Rupununi settlement, is where the weekly plane lands. Teddy Melville’s hotel is the base for a week, from which cowhands on horseback find a giant anteater and the team catches an anaconda and a caiman at a nearby lake.
- Why it matters: The base for the savannah collecting; a stop of about a week, described through the people and animals rather than the town.