Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge

by John Gimlette

Book Overview

Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana are among the least-known places in South America: nine hundred miles of muddy coastline giving way to a forest so dense that even today there are virtually no roads through it; a string of rickety coastal towns situated between the mouths of the Orinoco and Amazon Rivers, where living is so difficult that as many Guianese live abroad as in their homelands; an interior of watery, green anarchy where border disputes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307473627
• ISBN13: 9780307473622
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.9"