Jungleland: A Mysterious Lost City, a WWII Spy, and a True Story of Deadly Adventure

from kaitanya64

Stewart, a journalist who "doesn't like camping" sets out to find a mysterious lost city in the Amazon rainforest. Alternating with his own story, he recounts the tales of others who have searched for the same goal. In my opinion, the success of this type of travel/adventure depends upon both the...

from ElizaJane

A modern day reenactment of an old explorer's search for a lost city in the same vein as David Grann's The Lost City of Z but not of the same calibre as that book. Christopher Stewart follows in the footsteps of Theodore Morde who explored Honduras during the late 1930s looking for the fabled "Wh...

from RandyStafford

Don't come to this book expecting much about the wartime espionage activities of Theodore Morde. Apart from an episode in Istanbul where he talks with Franz von Pappen, Germany's ambassador to Turkey and an old spymaster himself, about assassinating Hitler, this book has little to offer in that a...

from wkelly42

Travel books have always been a favorite of mine. I love to travel, but don't get the opportunity to do so often enough, so I have to explore the world vicariously through books. When I read the description of Jungleland, it immediately caught my attention, because it combines my love of travel a...

from Pmaurer

This book reads like the written edition of Expedition Unknown. A contemporary author is trying to follow the trail of an earlier explorer in the jungle. very hard to get into - not my favorite form of literature. Harder to read than see on TV.