Madeira Park, BC, Canada: Harbour Publishing, Date: 2008. Soft cover. Very Good. Very good condition. Minor wear. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictures available upon request. 2008. Harbour Publishing ISBN 1550174215 9781550174212 [CA]

Harbour Pub Co, Date: 2008-04-14. Paperback. Used: Good. 2008. Harbour Pub Co ISBN 1550174215 9781550174212 [US]

A tight, clean, and unmarked copy-" Finalist for the 2009 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction If you want to drive from North America to South America, you'll have a hard time when you reach Panama's southernmost province, Darien. The Pan-American Highway ends just sixty miles short of Colombia. It's the only missing link in what would otherwise be an uninterrupted highway from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. When Balboa marched through Darien's jungles to cross the narrow isthmus in 1513, he was the first European to sight the Pacific from its eastern shores. For the next four centuries, pirates, gold miners, rebels, and political schemers all gravitated to Darien. Scotland failed miserably in its attempt to establish a colony. An American Navy expedition wandered lost in its jungle for two months with seven men dying, and countries fought to control the region's traffic and trade. Yet today, Darien is best known as a roadless backwater, home to native communities, Colombian guerrillas, and the descendants of black slaves and Spanish colonists. For twenty years, Martin Mitchinson has traveled in Central and South America. Fascinated by tales of Darien, he arrived aboard his 36-foot sailboat Ishmael and spent the next 18 months navigating physical challenges, native politics, and the constant risk of kidnapping. Mitchinson found temporary shelter in native communities while he followed footpaths through the rainforest, and paddled a dugout canoe along Darien's rivers. ...

ISBN10: 1550174215, ISBN13: 9781550174212, [publisher: Harbour Pub Co] Softcover illustrated edition. 240 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2008]

Harbour Publishing, Date: 2008-04-16. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2008. Harbour Publishing ISBN 1550174215 9781550174212 [US]