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Crossing the Darien Gap: A Daring Journey Through a Forbidding and Enchanting and Roadless Jungle That Is the Only Link by Land Between North America and South America

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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.

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.

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.