Alfonso Vinci is a traveller completely intune with these days of technology and scientific exploration. in Red Cloth and Green Forest he gives an account of two remarkable journeys he made in the still inaccessible regions of the Upper Amazon and Orinoco basins. vinci has worked as a surveyour and prospector for minerals (in 1950 he discoverd the largest diamond mine -Uriman - ever to have been found on the American continent) and he is scientifically trained, especially in geology and botany.