To start? Of all the adventures in all the world, the Amazon rainforest was about the most dramatic one to target as the first item on your to-do list. It was better to start smaller.

And as they continued through the damp woodland, having engaged in a sword fight in the midst of tracking down a lost ferret, it was evident this was a small adventure worth starting with.

"It's the largest in the world", he clarified. "By a long way. And I have indeed been there. The cacophony of insects in the morning is louder than a Howler. The rain falls like a sudden velvet curtain. And although I trekked across the jungle for weeks, I saw about as much of it as an ant sees of a mountain."