The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas
 

The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas

by Todd Balf

“Commit yourself to the Virgin Mary, for in her hands is the way into the Darién—and in God’s is the way out.”

The Darkest Jungle tells the harrowing story of America’s first ship canal exploration across a narrow piece of land in Central America called the Darién, a place that loomed large in the minds of the world’s most courageous adventurers in... (read more)

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* The Darkest Jungle / Todd Balf
A harrowing expedition into the wilds of the Panama’s Ispis in a failed attempt to strike a route for the Panama Channel. A “Shackelton like” misadventure highlighting suffering, sacrifice and celebrating man’s physical triumph over nature and his will and spirit to live at all cost. The small group lead by two Americans cut through the jungle from one ocean to the other. They were gone just under 30 days, but the toll on their bodies was extreme. Several...

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