Title:
Amazon hitchhiker : a woman's adventures from Canada to Brazil
Author:
Publication Date:
2021
Publication Information:
Harrignton, Ontario, Canada : Echo Hill Productions, [2021]
Physical Description:
186 pages : black and white illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780973032048
Abstract:
"AMAZON HITCHHIKER is the true story of Alycin Hayes, a young woman who follows her dream and hitchhikes alone in the 1970s from Canada across the USA, Mexico and Central America to South America where she buys an old dugout canoe thinking she can paddle from Colombia to Brazil on the Amazon River. Without enough food or even a map she soon discovers the Amazon rainforest is not the idyllic paradise she had imagined. She forges her way through this challenging, sometimes mystical adventure, facing life-threatening obstacles, while falling in love along the way. With candid honesty and a lifesaving sense of humor, Hayes has written an account of her travels that you won't be able to put down." - Amazon.com.
Contents:
My journey begins -- Jungle meanderings in Guatemala -- Clemencia in Costa Rica -- Orchids of our jungle in Pueblito -- Bogota, Columbia -- Heading to the Amazon headwaters -- Chiclet on the Putumayo River -- Some fly away -- Caiman and pink dolphins in Peru -- The mythical realm of the Dolphins Tribe -- Down to four-jungle madness -- Rio Amazonas in Brazil -- Nazi in a separate reality -- Don't cry for me, Argentina -- Living in Brazil -- Bolivia by train -- Inca mysteries in Peru.
Language:
English
