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- Title: Walking the Americas
- Author : Levison Wood
- Release Date : January 06, 2018
- Genre: Specialty Travel,Books,Travel & Adventure,Latin America,Essays & Memoirs,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 22409 KB
Description
A trek through Central America from the author of Walking the Himalayas, ājust the kind of guy you want with you on an adventureā (The Washington Post).
Beginning in the YucatĆ”nāand moving south through Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and PanamaāWoodās journey takes him from sleepy barrios to glamorous cities to Mayan ruins lying unexcavated in the wilderness. Wood encounters indigenous tribes in Mexico, revolutionaries in a Nicaraguan refugee camp, fellow explorers, and migrants heading toward the United States. The relationships he forges along the way are at the heart of his travelsāand the personal histories, cultures, and popular legends he discovers paint a riveting history of Mexico and Central America. While contending with the regionās natural obstacles like quicksand, flashfloods, and dangerous wildlife, he also partakes in family meals with local hosts, learns to build an emergency shelter, negotiates awkward run-ins with policemen, and witnesses the surreal beauty of Central Americaās landscapes, from cascading waterfalls and sunny beaches to the spectacular ridgelines of the Honduran highlands. Finally, Wood attempts to cross one of the worldās most impenetrable borders: the DariĆ©n Gap route from Panama into South America, a notorious smuggling passage and the wildest jungle he has ever navigated.
A Sunday Times bestseller and longlisted for the Banff Mountain Book Award for adventure travel, Walking the Americas is a thrilling personal tale, an accomplished piece of cultural reportage, and a breathtaking journey across some of the most diverse and unpredictable regions on earth.
āA thrilling narrative trek . . . [Wood] elevates this already fascinating landscape with lively prose that combines travel journal with history lessons, memoir, and survivalist handbook.āāBooklist