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.
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Andrew Niall Egan has explored isolated Canadian forests, endured Central American jungles, and survived African war zones. Born in 1970 in Dublin, Ireland, he grew up in Toronto, Canada. Andrew has diplomas in radio and television broadcasting and print journalism. He has worked as a newspaper features writer, a television reporter and a book publisher. After traveling on a sailboat for a year, he settled in Florida. He is now a real estate broker and manager of a real estate investment company.
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Good book, but old expedition,
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Pros: enjoyable read
Cons: wish I would have known this adventure took place many years ago before. Was disappointed at the end of the book to read how many years ago this actually took place (roughly 20 yrs). I plan to enter the Darien in the next few years and was hoping for something fairly recent.
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Great Jungle Adventure,
By Scott ""UNM Grad"" (Albuquerque, NM) - See all my reviews
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Well-written, interesting, from a heart-felt point of view.
Though written later as an adult, it is an amazing autobiographical account of an 18-year-old solo adventurer. It's simply written, but offers insights into these hidden cultures, and the eco-system encountered no where else in the world.
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In 1989 at the age of eighteen, and written nearly twenty years later, Andrew Egan ventured into Central America with a goal of traveling through the hostile, ominous Darien Gap which few others have achieved.
He did what he set out to do and we hear his modest story. Living amongst indigenous tribes; individuals he meets along the trails and rivers; typical disorientations, humidity and bugs that go along with jungle travel, etc. this was a major accomplishment. Although written a little too simple for my taste, nonetheless an agreeable read through the unforgiving rainforest of the Darien.
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