In the 1850s, the whole world looked to the Darien Gap in eastern Panama as the site for a glorious canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. But someone had to survey the land of the Darien Gap. That task fell to the U.S. Darien Exploring Expedition, and what a task it was! Misled by the false maps of a fraudulent earlier "explorer," the expedition was faced with two mountain ranges, damp and brutal heat, swarming mosquitoes and flies, a hostile native population, and a catalog of other hardships. The expedition was ...
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In the 1850s, the whole world looked to the Darien Gap in eastern Panama as the site for a glorious canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. But someone had to survey the land of the Darien Gap. That task fell to the U.S. Darien Exploring Expedition, and what a task it was! Misled by the false maps of a fraudulent earlier "explorer," the expedition was faced with two mountain ranges, damp and brutal heat, swarming mosquitoes and flies, a hostile native population, and a catalog of other hardships. The expedition was soon at the brink of disaster; the men's ordeal of starvation, exhaustion, disease, madness, and ultimate despair as they succumbed to the brutal jungle is one of the great untold tales in the history of exploration.
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Good in good dust jacket. DJ with small tears to edges. Boards and spine intact. Nice copy, with little to no wear. No apparent marks throughout this book. Tracking available on most domestic orders.
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Fine Condition in Fine jacket. Dust Jacket is in fine condition without tears or chips or other damage. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Central America; Exploration. ISBN: 0609609890. ISBN/EAN: 9780609609897. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 24036.
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Good. 8 AUDIO CDs withdrawn from a library collection. Some shelf wear to the clamshell case. Library marking on the box and CDs. Each CD is protected in an individual slot. Enjoy this AUDIO CD performance.
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Like New in Like New jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($24.95 price intact). Published by Crown, 2003. Octavo. Burgundy cloth over brown boards stamped in gold. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with very light shelf wear. 332 pages. ISBN: 9780609609897. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!
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Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. xiv, [2], 331, [5] p. Illustrations. Maps. Dramatis Personae. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Excerpted from an on-line posting: "Todd Balf attended the University of New Hampshire and is a former senior editor at Outside Magazine and a contributing editor to Men s Journal as well as a frequent contributor to Fast Company. His book, The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America s Ill Fated Race to Connect the Seas, chronicles the harrowing fate of the first US naval effort to transverse the narrow, 40-mile Isthmus of Panama in 1854 (under the command of thirty-three-year-old Naval officer Isaac Strain). Todd Balf learned of that expedition and the amazing Lieutenant Strain when he went to the area of Panama known as the Darien Gap in 1991 on a magazine assignment, and as we are told on a memorably flawed crossing of the Gap, he and his companions managed to see neither the Atlantic or the Pacific.
