31 Days In The Darien

Author : Kevin Arnold
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ISBN 13 : 9781725990975
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 31 Days in the Darien written by Kevin Arnold and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Darien Gap is the ultimate off-road challenge; a two-hundred-mile section of jungle separating Colombia, South America from Panama, Central America.Ride along with Mike Arnold as he shares his five-month experience via a daily journal and pictures as he travels with the group known as the Expedicion de las Americas. His off-road adventure team not only conquered the Darien Gap, they took it further and traveled from the tip of South America to the tip of North America following the Pan-American Highway.

Author : Andrew Niall Egan
Publisher : Adventura Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780964794061
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crossing the Darien Gap written by Andrew Niall Egan and published by Adventura Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you ever plan to travel between North America and South America, you must consider that there is no road. Ten hours southeast of the Panama Canal, the Pan-American Highway penetrates the jungle, shrivels into a footpath and dies. The highway resurrects in Colombia, another continent. But the land between the two countries is a vast and primitive realm. On a map the two ends of the highway appear as two slivers of life, separated by the unknown. Filling this void is a rugged wilderness known as the Darien Rainforest. Because the Darien hinders all contact by land between North America and South America, it has earned the name "the Darien Gap." Yet most travelers never encounter the Darien Gap. When they go to South America they fly or perhaps take a boat. I decided to cross the Darien overland, traversing from Panama to Colombia by foot and riverboat.

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Total Pages : 1660 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poor's Manual of Railroads written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With an appendix containing a full analysis of the debts of the United States, the several states, municipalities etc. Also statements of street railway and traction companies, industrial corporations, etc." (statement omitted on later vols.).

Author : Archibald Carlisle McKinley
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780820311876
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Archibald C. McKinley written by Archibald Carlisle McKinley and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable document from the Reconstruction era, The Journal of Archibald C. McKinley offers the modern reader a rare glimpse of daily life on Sapelo Island, Georgia, as seen through the eyes of an upper-class farmer. A descendant of Scottish settlers, Archibald McKinley was born in Lexington, Georgia, in 1842 and served as a Confederate officer during the Civil War. Just after the war, he began farming near Milledgeville, Georgia, and within a year had met and married Sarah Spalding, a granddaughter of Thomas Spalding, who had built his plantation empire on Sapelo Island. In 1869, the McKinleys moved to Sapelo to raise cotton, sugar cane, and other crops. The bulk of this journal is a sustained account of their sojourn on the island through 1876, before their return to Milledgeville. The brief, matter-of-fact entries that make up McKinley's journal focus mainly on the small occurrences that filled his days: farm work, hunting and fishing expeditions, sailing excursions, church services, changes in the weather, the disposition of his crops, the development of the Darien timber shipping trade. Scattered throughout, however, are intriguing references to dramatic events--shootings, trials, tensions between whites and the recently freed blacks--and to the processes of Reconstruction, as when McKinley notes that "a company of Yankee soldiers" had arrived at the penitentiary to ensure equal treatment of black and white convicts. The longest entry in the journal is a eulogy for a freedman named Scott, who, as McKinley's slave, had remained "true as steel" during McKinley's service in the Civil War. Editor Robert L. Humphries has included with the journal several of the McKinley family letters, written after Archibald and Sarah left Sapelo Island. In the introduction, historian Russell Duncan places the story in context, focusing on the larger events of Reconstruction as they pertained to Sapelo Island and to the relations between blacks and whites there.

Author : Paul Winder
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446421813
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cloud Garden written by Paul Winder and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Darién Gap is a place of legend. The only break in the Pan-American highway, which runs from Alaska to the tip of South America, it is an almost impregnable strip of swamp, jungle and cloud forest between the vast landmasses of North and South America. Stories of abduction and murder there are rife and in recent years more people have successfully climbed Everest or trekked to the South Pole than have crossed the Darién Gap. In 2000, Tom Hart Dyke, a young botanist, set off to Central America with one thing on his mind: orchids. He knew that in order to find the rare and beautiful species he so fervently admired, he would have to visit some of the most inhospitable places on earth. Unbeknown to Tom, another young explorer, Paul Winder, was backpacking through the area at the same time. Though he sometimes worked freelance in the City of London, Paul was a fearless and intrepid traveller, happier scaling volcanoes than lounging on beaches. In every bar and café along his route, rumours abounded of the Darién Gap - and the more he heard, the greater became his desire to make the journey. Pure chance brought Paul and Tom together in northern Mexico; they formed an instant bond and their fate was sealed. Ignoring a final, succinct warning from the Lonely Planet guide - 'Don't even think about it!' - Tom and Paul set off into the Darién: Tom in search of orchids, Paul in search of adventure. They would find plenty of each. For six days they made good progress. Then, just hours away from Colombia, the dream ended and the horror began. Paul and Tom were ambushed by FARC guerrillas who were to hold them hostage for the next nine months. From that day on, their survival was a matter of extraordinary endurance, incredible ingenuity and not a little good luck ...

Author : William Penn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Catalogue of an Important Collection of Books, Manuscripts, Maps, Charts, and Engravings ... From the Libraries of William Penn ... and of His Descendants, with Autographs, Bookplates, Etc. ... Which Will be Sold by Auction, by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson ... on Thursday, February 29, 1872, Etc written by William Penn and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 706 pages
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Download or read book Poor's Directory of Railway Officials ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 1830 pages
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Download or read book Poor's Manual of the Railroads of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 996 pages
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Download or read book House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on with total page 996 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. F. Iggulden
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0718186494
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Darien written by C. F. Iggulden and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover your new favourite fantasy series . . . _______________ The city of Darien lies at the heart of a dying empire. Twelve families spoil for a throne soon to be made vacant - by murder or civil war. Into this fevered, hungry city come six strangers: An orphan and an old swordsman. A hunter and a pitiless killer. A young thief and a cynical chancer. As the sun sinks the city will know no slumber. For long dormant passions have awoken. Fortunes will be won and lost. Lives will be staked and claimed. And a story long waiting to be told will catch fire in the telling . . . _______________ What readers think . . . 'One of the best fantasy novels I've read' ***** 'I'm a huge fan of Iggulden, but this takes it to another level' ***** 'A must-read and a very welcome addition to the genre' ***** 'Enough machinations, conspiracies and controversies to rival Game of Thrones' ***** 'If you love David Gemmel, you will love this' ***** _______________ Darien is the first book in the Empire of Salt, THE epic fantasy series of spellbinding imagination . . .