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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | A classic adventure book in the spirit of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Heart of Darkness. Four travelers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest, but what begins as a dream adventure quickly deteriorates into a dangerous nightmare, and after weeks of wandering in the dense undergrowth, the four backpackers split up into two groups. But when a terrible rafting accident separates him from his partner, Yossi is forced to survive for weeks alone against one of the wildest backdrops on the planet. Stranded without a knife, map, or survival training, he must improvise shelter and forage for wild fruit to survive. As his feet begin to rot during raging storms, as he loses all sense of direction, and as he begins to lose all hope, he wonders whether he will make it out of the jungle alive.
Lost in the Jungle is the story of friendship and the teachings of nature, and a terrifying true account that you won’t be able to put down. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Yossi Ghinsberg | | Paperback: | 320 pages | | Publisher: | Skyhorse Publishing | | Publication Date: | March 02, 2009 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1602393702 | | Package Length: | 8.2 inches | | Package Width: | 5.5 inches | | Package Height: | 0.9 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.85 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 17 reviews |
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26 of 29 found the following review helpful:
 A Truly Gripping Adventure Oct 02, 2009
By Carl Pugh
I survive almost exclusively on a voracious reading diet of nonfiction adventure. But I am also a picky eater -- bailing on almost 25% of all books when they don't hold my interest. Lost in the Jungle was a fine meal! A great balance of subtle human drama and edge-of-your-seat intensity. Right up my alley.
16 of 17 found the following review helpful:
Really liked it Jun 18, 2009
By S. Smith
I thought this was a terrific story of adventure & survival with a little mystery tossed in. I really enjoyed it.
11 of 12 found the following review helpful:
riveting Jan 27, 2010
By Brian Williams
"gentleman"
This is the true tale from one of the survivors of this ill fated adventure.
You may have seen this on "I shouldn't have survived" or its "science of Survival" sequel (both here on Amazon I believe)
I couldn't put it down, very little got done around me till it was finished.
This would be excellent for a very long plane flight, say half way around the world.
Want to say something else but don't want to give it away.
International best seller for good reason.
Thank you Yossi, Man of Action.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
An exciting page-turner Jan 30, 2011
By Co-editors Nancy Gray and Dennis Field
"Co-editors of "First Year University: A Survival Guide""
This is one of my top 20 books in my nonfiction adventure collection. Fast-paced and exciting, I couldn't put it down. It was as if I was in the jungle with him. The conflict between the characters felt so real and I could feel the tension build. Very well written. Excellent book!
For other books that I found gripping and well worth reading, see my other reviews or my listmania list. I am an avid reader of true adventure and/or survival stories.
6 of 8 found the following review helpful:
One Man Against Impossible Odds Jul 06, 2010
By Scott B. Williams
One of the great fringe benefits of writing books is that I get to read a lot of good books in the course of my research. I've been reading lots of first-person narratives of near-death survival experiences lately while working on my current book project which will be completed in the next two months. One such book is Yossi Ghinsberg's Lost in the Jungle. At one time, back when I was obsessed with getting to the jungle for the first time myself, I read anything and everything I could find related to jungle travel. Now, having been there and done that more than once, it began to have less appeal, and somehow I passed on Ghinsberg's excellent book a couple of times when I picked up the original hardcover edition in the bookstore and flipped through the pages.
I now realize the mistake I made after recently reading this book, which I couldn't put down once drawn into the narrative. Lost in the Jungle is in fact a gripping account of a lone man with little knowledge of wilderness survival facing one of the most unforgiving wildernesses in the world - a trackless swath of the Bolivian Amazon along the remote and inaccessible Tuichi River.
Ghinsberg is extremely fortunate that he lived to write his book. Two of the four companions he started out with on his ill-prepared trip were never heard from again. In the first part of the book as you read his account of how they ended up in such a predicament, it's hard to have much sympathy for any of them as you see mistake after mistake being made. But once Ghinsberg is alone and telling of his terrifying experiences after getting swept through raging rapids on a log raft when he becomes separated from his remaining companion, his descriptions of the difficulties the jungle presents and his methods of dealing with them with practically nothing win you over to his side. He turns out to be an incredibly tenacious survivor against odds that few experts would care to even contemplate. Even with his inexperience, he manages to find food, shelter himself from torrential downpours, survive a flash flood that nearly sweeps him away, extricate himself from quicksand bogs and fend off a prowling jaguar in the middle of the night.
I think the most important lesson this book has to teach is the role of attitude and the will to live in an extreme test of life or death. Ghinsberg refuses to give up, and near the end of the narrative, when he knows he can't walk out, he resigns himself to the possibility that he may have to wait months before someone comes along on the river. Even with this dismal prospect, he starts making plans to survive alone like a modern-day Robinson Crusoe of the jungle until he can get out. It is little wonder that today he makes his living as a motivational speaker. This review is condensed from my orginal review on [...]
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