Orinoco (novel)

Orinoco (novel)

Orinoco (Polish: Orinoko) is a Polish adventure novel by Arkady Fiedler, first published in 1957. Set in the eighteenth century in Spanish Venezuela, the book is addressed primarily to the teenage reader, following the adventures of the protagonist Johna Bobera along the Orinoco.


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