Jungle (Movie Tie-In Edition) : A Harrowing True Story of Survival in the Amazon (Paperback)

from shawnd

This is an interesting adventure book. The writing is plain, unadorned, and not elegant but sense of being there in the first person really comes across without being maudlin. There is a little gratuitous writing of extraneous things; kept to a minimum. As an adventure or survival book vs. the ot...

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A riveting tale of adventure, hope, and ultimately defying death in the Peruvian Amazon. This is the true story of Yossi Ghinsberg as he sets out on an Amazon exploration adventure with 3 others and ends up on his own trying to survive for the next 3 weeks. I kept putting myself in his situation ...

from Karndog

Good solid survival story, just like I like them!

from Fanny

I usually read fiction but picked up this true account after reading a review. So glad I didn't pass it by. This is the story of four young men who meet in Boliva and plan a two-month trek into the jungle to look for gold. It is told in the first person by the author, Yossi Ghinsberg, and I love ...

from amerynth

Yossi Ghinsberg's "Lost in the Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival" tells the story of Ghinsberg's trip into the Bolivian jungle and his three weeks surviving alone after being separated from his friends. As a survival story, it is pretty amazing as Ghinsberg survives starvation, jaguars, ...