Jungle Crossing

Jungle Crossing
Author: Sydney Salter
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2009
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0152064346

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Thirteen-year-old Kat wants to be at "mini-camp" with classmates rather than touring the jungles near Cancun, Mexico, on a family vacation, but a story told by one of her Mayan guides helps her understand that by always trying to please her friends, she is losing herself.

Crossing the Darien Gap

Crossing the Darien Gap
Author: Andrew Niall Egan
Publisher: Adventura Publishing
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780964794061

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If you ever plan to travel between North America and South America, you must consider that there is no road. Ten hours southeast of the Panama Canal, the Pan-American Highway penetrates the jungle, shrivels into a footpath and dies. The highway resurrects in Colombia, another continent. But the land between the two countries is a vast and primitive realm. On a map the two ends of the highway appear as two slivers of life, separated by the unknown. Filling this void is a rugged wilderness known as the Darien Rainforest. Because the Darien hinders all contact by land between North America and South America, it has earned the name "the Darien Gap." Yet most travelers never encounter the Darien Gap. When they go to South America they fly or perhaps take a boat. I decided to cross the Darien overland, traversing from Panama to Colombia by foot and riverboat.

Crossing the Darien Gap

Crossing the Darien Gap
Author: Andrew N Egan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2008-06-19
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780964794023

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If you ever plan to travel between North America and South America, you must consider that there is no road. Ten hours southeast of the Panama Canal, the Pan-American Highway penetrates the jungle, shrivels into a footpath and dies. The highway resurrects in Colombia, another continent. But the land between the two countries is a vast and primitive realm. On a map the two ends of the highway appear as two slivers of life, separated by the unknown. Filling this void is a rugged wilderness known as the Darien Rainforest. Because the Darien hinders all contact by land between North America and South America, it has earned the name "the Darien Gap." Yet most travelers never encounter the Darien Gap. When they go to South America they fly or perhaps take a boat. I decided to cross the Darien overland, traversing from Panama to Colombia by foot and riverboat.

Rhodesia - and After

Rhodesia - and After
Author: Sharrad H. Gilbert
Publisher:
Total Pages: 430
Release: 1901
Genre: South African War, 1899-1902
ISBN:

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Arthur

Arthur
Author: Mikael Lindnord
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Adventure racing
ISBN: 9781473625235

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This is the story of Arthur, the stray dog who walked out of the jungle in Ecuador when offered a meatball by Mikael Lindnord, head of a Swedish extreme sports team. The team were on a 430-mile race through the Amazon when they met Arthur, but the dog wouldn't leave them, despite injury and illness. He followed them all the way to the finish line, where Mikael decided to take him home to his family in Sweden. This is the story of Arthur, who walked out of the jungle one day and didn't stop walking until he found a home.

Camping & Wilderness Survival

Camping & Wilderness Survival
Author: Paul Tawrell
Publisher: Paul Tawrell
Total Pages: 1092
Release: 2006
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780974082028

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Extensively researched and illustrated guidebook of nearly every conceivable aspect of outdoor camping and survival in all types of terrain and climate.

The World's Work

The World's Work
Author: Walter Hines Page
Publisher:
Total Pages: 786
Release: 1906
Genre:
ISBN:

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Jungle Warfare

Jungle Warfare
Author: John Cross
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2008-02-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 178303470X

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The physical conditions of jungle warfare and the closeness of contact with the enemy pose unique problems and call for special soldiering skills. Colonel John Cross, a life long Gurkha officer, has an unrivalled knowledge of this demanding warfare and uses it to best advantage in this instructive yet personal account of techniques and experiences. He uses examples from British and Japanese sides in the Second World War and goes on to demonstrate how tactics and strategy developed in the Malay, Borneo and Indo-China theatres thereafter. He laces his work with vivid recollections and assessments of friend and foe along with entertaining anecdotes from a wide range of sources. This excellent book offers a perfect blend of factual military history and personal recollection and the reader gains a unique insight into this most challenging form of warfare.

Vietnam War

Vietnam War
Author: Vinh Truong
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2010-03-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1466923989

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The author discusses the three Axioms in the dominant interpretation of the U.S.-Vietnam War that were established by the invisible permanent government right after the National Security Council meeting on September 21, 1960. They are: - There was never a legitimate non-communist government in Saigon (dissolution GVN) - The U.S. had no legitimate reason to be involved in Vietnamese affairs (Tonkin-Gulf-Incident) - The U.S. could not have won the war under any circumstances (U.S. troops honorable withdrawal) There are many reasons why the author decided to write this book, The New Legion. He felt compelled to write it for the longest time; after spending thirteen years in the Communists so-called reeducation camp. He escaped from a canal in the Mekong Delta and drifted in a rickety old boat similar to a childs toy from South Vietnam for fourteen days until he reached the nearest Pacific island, Palawan Islands, Philippines. He knew the pain that all the people who were involved suffered yet he thought that perhaps it might be best to let it become a not-so-distant memory. Now, he has finally decided to write the truth at last. It is the story of loyalty, duty, honor, and love.

Crossing Over

Crossing Over
Author: Richard Currey
Publisher: Santa Fe Writers Project
Total Pages: 46
Release: 2018-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1939650488

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In 1980, Richard Currey published Crossing Over to wide critical acclaim. Best described as flash fiction, Crossing Over is hybrid prose-poetry about one young man's journey through the Vietnam War. Adapted for the stage, and praised by antiwar activist Daniel Berrigan, these vignettes from the war-torn jungles changed the way America thought about the Vietnam Era.Crossing Over has long been regarded as one of the Vietnam Era's most evocative literary works. Cited by Library Journal as a "Best of the Small Presses," the prose poems and vignettes of Crossing Over formed the basis of Currey's 1988 novel Fatal Light, cited by Tim O'Brien as "one of the very best works of fiction to emerge from the Vietnam War."