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Walking the Americas

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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

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A trek through Central America from the author of Walking the Himalayas, ā€œjust the kind of guy you want with you on an adventureā€ (The Washington Post).

Beginning in the YucatĆ”nā€”and moving south through Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panamaā€”Woodā€™s 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 travelsā€”and the personal histories, cultures, and popular legends he discovers paint a riveting history of Mexico and Central America. While contending with the regionā€™s 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 Americaā€™s landscapes, from cascading waterfalls and sunny beaches to the spectacular ridgelines of the Honduran highlands. Finally, Wood attempts to cross one of the worldā€™s 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.

ā€œA thrilling narrative trek . . . [Wood] elevates this already fascinating landscape with lively prose that combines travel journal with history lessons, memoir, and survivalist handbook.ā€ā€”Booklist


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