Jungleland [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Christopher S. Stewart

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0062266993 ISBN 13: 9780062266996

Casa editrice: Harper, 2013

Riassunto

"I began to daydream about the jungle...."On April 6, 1940, explorer and future World War II spy Theodore Morde (who would one day attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler), anxious about the perilous journey that lay ahead of him, struggled to fall asleep at the Paris Hotel in La Ceiba, Honduras.Nearly seventy years later, in the same hotel, acclaimed journalist Christopher S. Stewart wonders what he's gotten himself into. Stewart and Morde seek the same answer on their quests: the solution to the riddle of the whereabouts of Ciudad Blanca, buried somewhere deep in the rain forest on the Mosquito Coast. Imagining an immense and immaculate El Dorado like city made entirely of gold, explorers as far back as the Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes have tried to find the fabled White City. Others have gone looking for tall white cliffs and gigantic stone temples no one found a trace.Legends, like the jungle, are dense and captivating. Many have sought their fortune or fame down the Rio Patuca from Christopher Columbus to present-day college professors and many have died or disappeared. What begins as a passing interest slowly turns into an obsession as Stewart pieces together the whirlwind life and mysterious death of Morde, a man who had sailed around the world five times before he was thirty and claimed to have discovered what he called the Lost City of the Monkey God.Armed with Morde's personal notebooks and the enigmatic coordinates etched on his well-worn walking stick, Stewart sets out to test the jungle himself and to test himself in the jungle. As we follow the parallel journeys of Morde and Stewart, the ultimate destination morphs with their every twist and turn. Are they walking in circles? Or are they running from their own shadows? Jungleland is part detective story, part classic tale of man versus wild in the tradition of The Lost City of Z and Lost in Shangri-La. A story of young fatherhood as well as the timeless call of adventure, this is an epic search for answers in a place where nothing is guaranteed, least of all survival."

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Recensione:

A great revival of an older genre, the treasure hunt, and associated adventures. --Kirkus

A bold attempt to solve the mystery of the White City of Honduras and finish the work of a World War II spy.... a rip-snorting journey... Readers who loved The Lost City of Z have found their next great true adventure. --Mitchell Zuckoff

A fascinating and gripping account, a true to life Indiana Jones adventure. --Douglas Preston

L'autore:

Christopher S. Stewart's work has also appeared in GQ, Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, Salon, Wired, and other publications. He is the author of Hunting the Tiger, a book about Zeljko Arkan Raznatovic, the Serbian mobster and warlord at the center of the Balkan wars in the 1990s. He's a former contributing editor at Conde Nast Portfolio, where, among other things, he wrote about the Unification Church's gun business and corruption in Iraq. He lives in New York.

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• Editore: Harper
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0062266993
• ISBN 13: 9780062266996
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256