Travel to Central America

The Cloud Garden: A True Story of Adventure, Survival, and Extreme Horticulture

Format: Paperback
Author: Tom Hart Dyke
ReleaseDate: 01 December, 2005
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Rating:

True Adventure Fun Read
True adventure books make for an excellent break from novels and heavier literary works. The Cloud Garden came to my attention through a review in Outside Magazine. This one is a perfect example. The story is gripping, the characters are likeable, and the book is hard to put down. The bad guys are painted honestly and roundly as real people. No one is all good nor all bad. This is a story about survival, wits, humanity and the romantic ideals of adventure of which so many of us dream. Find your synopsis elsewhere.

Not Where I Want to Go
But not all exploring trips have yielded spectacular results. The discoveries made by eccentric British naturalists down through the years have literally turned the scientific community on its ears. In 2000, a young botanist set off to Central America in search of rare and beautiful species of orchids. He met up with another young explorer in northern Mexico. Where else to go but the Darien Gap, the only place where the Pan-American Highway isn't finished.

Traveling through the Gap, collecting along the way, they were just hours away from the Colombian border when they were ambushed by FARC guerillas who were to hold them hostage for the next nine months. From then on, their survival was a matter of extraordinary endurance, incredible ingenuity and not just a bit of luck.

The book written by this pair is a combination of travelogue, adventure store, and surprisingly not without a bit of humor.
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can't put it down
I am half way through and I love it, well written, fun, exciting.

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