Ray Laskey The Amazonians This is a book about two families, who ventured into the deepest realms of the rain forest in the Amazon, to study its plentiful ‘Flora and Fauna’ and the culture of the inhabitants, the Indios. Fascinated by its vast resources, they settled down and now a good twenty five years later, live there. The Madros and the Zypros. These two families lived a good few miles apart, building their houses on sturdy trees, as protection against marauders and brought their children to world there. The Madros had two girls and a boy, whilst the Zypros had just one son. Life was tolerable and adventurous living in this vast forest, till one day… And that one day came, as the money mongers from abroad, entered the realms of this beautiful forest, the Amazon. They came with heavy machinery, with manpower and with weapons… Fantastic Novel – First of three parts – The Madros and the Zyprios 232 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-3-935192-13-2 € 14,90 ENGLISH VERSION Raymond Laskey, an Anglo Burmese, (half British, half Burmese), born 1943 in Myamar (Burma). The early part of his education was in a boarding school at the foot of the Himalayas, in Darjeeling. In the early seventies he came to Germany and stayed. Then he decided to fulfill a long time ambition, w r i t i n g. His daughter encouraged him to fulfill this ambition, she inspired him to write the stories he told her as a child and this is just what he did. Madros and Zypros - totally fictitious names - made up on the spur of the moment.