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* Many of the early Amazonian explorers seem to have experienced this—hideous fungal infections, hostile natives, trouble finding anything to eat, and [[Everything Trying to Kill You|everything else trying to eat them.]] A well-known (if now under siege) anthropological theory is that the Amazon is a "wet desert", in which civilization can never arise, and which dissolves the underpinnings of civilizations that try to migrate there.
** Hence subverted; remnants of a flourishing civilization have been found in the Amazon, hinting even that much of the "wilderness" was in fact cultivated and kept under check for centuries. The diseases brought by the Europeans destroyed it before a single Westerner could witness any of it.
**The explorer Perry Fawcett when he came there in the nineteenth century found not only disease but a thriving rubber rush back when rubber was as valuable as oil. The catch was that no infrastructure could be built
* While technically rainforests, not jungles, [[Land Down Under|big chunks of north-eastern Australia are like this]].
** Australian troops also fought in the Hungry Jungle in [[WW 2]], along the Kokoda Track. They later took what they learned there and brought it to the Vietnam War, where they terrorised the Viet Cong.
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