Gravity My Enemy: Wheelchair adventures in the wilds of tropical Colombia

by EDMUND ELSNER

On October 15, 1959 a seventeen-year-old boy was stricken with polio and hospitalized for an entire year, emerging with need of a wheelchair -- a quadriplegic for life. On September 16, 1964, less than five years later, having finished his university studies, he sat alone on a prop-driven Constellation bound for Colombia, South America. He was about to embark on eleven years of adventures -- from the dim, forbidden forests of the Darien south of Panama...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412006589
• ISBN13: 9781412006583
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"