The Darien Gap: Travels in the Rainforest of Panama

by Martin Mitchinson

Book Overview

Finalist for the 2009 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction

If you want to drive from North America to South America, you'll have a hard time when you reach Panama's southernmost province, Darien. The Pan-American Highway ends just sixty miles short of Colombia. It's the only missing link in what would otherwise be uninterrupted highway from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego.

When Balboa marched through Darien's jungles to cross...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550174215
• ISBN13: 9781550174212
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Harbour Publishing
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"