[PDF.67gn] The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas

The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas

[PDF.gu93] The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas

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 | #229588 in Books |  Crown |  2003-10 |  2003-12-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.51 x1.18 x6.42l, | File type: PDF | 352 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Interesting Read|By TBL|Very informative about a period between the Mexican War and War Between The States. Little is told of these episodes in most history books and rarely talked about in school. The author (Balf) did a good job in telling the story and of the men involved, however, what would have been very helpful would have been to have maps showing locations and area phot|From Publishers Weekly|In 1854, Isaac Strain, an ambitious young U.S. Navy lieutenant, launched an expedition hoping to find a definitive route for a canal across the isthmus of Panama. For hundreds of years, the Dari‚n isthmus had defied explorers; its un

“Commit yourself to the Virgin Mary, for in her hands is the way into the Darién—and in God’s is the way out.”

The Darkest Jungle tells the harrowing story of America’s first ship canal exploration across a narrow piece of land in Central America called the Darién, a place that loomed large in the minds of the world’s most courageous adventurers in the nineteenth century. With rival warships and explorers fr...

You easily download any file type for your device.The Darkest Jungle: The True Story of the Darien Expedition and America's Ill-Fated Race to Connect the Seas   |  Todd Balf. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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