The Jungle and the Damned - Softcover

Davis, Hassoldt

4.09

11 ratings by Goodreads

9780803265981: The Jungle and the Damned

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803265980 ISBN 13: 9780803265981

Publisher: Bison Books, 2000

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Hassoldt Davis (1907–1959) was an adventurer and travel writer whose work Ernest Hemingway once described as “fantastic . . . magnificent.” With his intrepid new wife, filmmaker Ruth Staudinger, Davis sets off on an improbable honeymoon, first to Devil’s Island, and then down an unexplored river in the interior of French Guiana. The result is a swashbuckling saga that deserves a place on any adventure bookshelf.

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About the Author:

Writer and traveler Lawrence Millman is the author of numerous travel and exploration books, most recently An Evening among Headhunters and Other Reports from Roads Less Traveled.

Review:

"As a honeymoon, all this may not appeal to those who have previously leaned toward Bermuda. As reading matter, it is something else again—a tale of adventure."—New York Times (New York Times)

"Lyrical and poetic."—Christian Science Monitor (Christian Science Monitor)

"It is never possible to get the whole of a really good book of exploration into a review. This is such a book. There is not a slow moment in it."—San Francisco Chronicle (San Francisco Chronicle)

"Vivid and intimate pictures of docile and hostile jungles, of unknown peoples and a great uncomfortable world which have a definitely popular appeal."—Kirkus (Kirkus)

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