The Cloud Garden

SOFTBACK ?AUTHOR SIGNED,? SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.FNL.* Date of Publication: 2003* Publisher: Bantam Press.* Binding and cover condition: Colour photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Absolutely minimal shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems lightly used if at all. FINE* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Author dedication, ?With Best Wishes, Tom Hart Dyke.? Clean, crisp & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. Very slight colouration to page margins and edges. VG* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 323 pp. text. i pp. advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- The Darien Gap is a place of legend, an almost impregnable strip of swamp, jungle and cloud forest between the vast land masses of North and South America. Stories of abduction and murder there are rife, and in recent years more people have successfully climbed Everest of trekked to the South Pole than have crossed the Darien Gap. In 2000, Tom Hart Dyke, a young botanist, set off to Central America with one thing on his mind: orchids. Tom?s enthusiasm for his beloved plants knew no bounds. In order to find the rare and beautiful species he so fervently admired, he was determined to endure some of the most inhospitable places on earth. He joined forces with a young backpacker and plunged into the jungle from Mexico. The two of them were to find the wilderness less dangerous than the brigands who captured them and held them incommunicado and at gun-point for months on end at peril of their lives. This is the story of their incarceration and their extraordinary fortitude under the most arduous of circumstances.* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. thus, FNL, with minimal shelf wear & slight age.*