The Cloud Garden - Softcover
An almost impregnable strip of jungle between North and South America, the Darien Gap has been ravaged by civil wars, drug trafficking and guerrilla groups. Enthusiastic botanist Tom Hart Dyke, and merchant banker and explorer Paul Winder set off in search of orchids and adventure.
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Tom Hart Dyke is a botanist whose wild enthusiasm for plants is set to explode onto a television screen near you at any moment. Paul Winder, when he isn't in the jungle or up a mountain, works in the City of London as a banker.
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"Clearly, surviving a nine-month jungle kidnapping requires courage and endurance. But Hart Dyke and Winder came equipped with something else in addition: pluck. It's that quality, crackling on every page, that makes The Cloud Garden one of the strangest and most satisfying adventure reads in recent memory.""--Men's Journal" magazine "Written with humor and suspense, this is a vivid account of [Dyke's and Winder's] nine-month ordeal. Dual first-person viewpoints are seamlessly spliced together, and the format provides a prismatic presentation of contrasting attitudes, allowing each author to comment on the other.""--Publishers Weekly" "Told in alternating voices (which works surprisingly well), this is a well-written adventure story filled with intrigue and hope.""--Library Journal" "Readers will find themselves turning pages and delaying dinner while Winder and Dyke slowly blossom into the heroes of their own misguided adventure.""--BookPage"
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- PublisherNo Imprint
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0593051815
- ISBN 13 9780593051818
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages323
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. 323 pages. Cover wornAn almost impregnable strip of jungle be tween North and South America, the Darien Gap has been ravaged by civil wars, drug trafficking and guerrilla groups. Enthusiastic botanist Tom Hart Dyke, and merchant banker and explorer Paul Win der set off in search of orchids and adventure. Seller Inventory # 1366l
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: VG+/F/ND. y 1st. Edn. Thus, 1st. Imp. FNL. SOFTBACK ?AUTHOR SIGNED,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.FNL.* Date of Publication: 2003* Publisher: Bantam Press.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly used if at all. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Author dedication, ?With Best Wishes, Tom Hart Dyke.? Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. Very slight colouration to page margins and edges. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 323 pp. text. i pp. advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- The Darien Gap is a place of legend, an almost impregnable strip of swamp, jungle and cloud forest between the vast land masses of North and South America. Stories of abduction and murder there are rife, and in recent years more people have successfully climbed Everest of trekked to the South Pole than have crossed the Darien Gap. In 2000, Tom Hart Dyke, a young botanist, set off to Central America with one thing on his mind: orchids. Tom?s enthusiasm for his beloved plants knew no bounds. In order to find the rare and beautiful species he so fervently admired, he was determined to endure some of the most inhospitable places on earth. He joined forces with a young backpacker and plunged into the jungle from Mexico. The two of them were to find the wilderness less dangerous than the brigands who captured them and held them incommunicado and at gun-point for months on end at peril of their lives. This is the story of their incarceration and their extraordinary fortitude under the most arduous of circumstances.* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. thus, FNL, with minimal shelf wear & slight age.* 2003-01-01. y. Seller Inventory # 633
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Book Description softcover. Condition: good. no jacket. Signed 1st. RARE SIGNED 1st paperback, published by Bantam, 2003. Signed by Tom Hart Dyke, with personal inscription to title page. Some creasing to spine & cover, light tanning to pages. Good signed copy. book. Seller Inventory # 13618565
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