IN THE JUNGLE by Annie Dillard

"Out of the way of what?"
Annie Dillard's piece looks into another culture and details its beauty and the staggering differences between it and our country. The good thing about travel writing is that it's out to point out positive things that we do not experience in our culture so accompanied with good sensory detail, you can be involved in the best and most vivid 'telepathy' in reading.

Dillard's piece is a teleportation device. She makes good use of detail; her sensory description enlivens the piece in a way that allows a reader to have a picture of the scene in his mind, he can see the scene in his own mind and then watch it happen. There is intimate microscopic detail in her description of flora when she talks about tree trunks being "thirty or forty feet across." There is a variety of tree names which she learned and then teaches us, and fauna detail; there are many things in the rainforest I should be afraid of.

The local customs of the rainforest are another thing. There is a good value of shock that intrigues a reader. "Blowgun-using Indians, who killed missionaries in 1956 and ate them," "we saw where he had impaled the head of a boa, open-mouthed, on a pointed stick by the canoes, for decoration."

Also, her diction adds to her style. She has a good use of self explanatory verbs in describing "Herons, egrets, and cuckoos;" plodded, clattered, lolled and fussed.