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High Jungles and Low
by Archie Carr
- BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
- 1992
- PAPER
- 226 PAGES
- FAVORITE
- OUT OF PRINT
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In this absorbing memoir, Carr tells of life in the Honduran highlands, where "the volcano-set Pacific shore is 60 miles to the south and the hot, lush, banana coast a hundred miles to the north." His account of slogging through the forest as a gun-toting tagalong on a commercial expedition in search of mahogany is classic. Though it takes place in Honduras, it's just as appropriate for a trip to any Central American jungle. Peter Mathiessen enthused that it is, "Illuminated by the same joyful curiosity and erudition, lyric writing, and plain love of life that made a classic of Archie Carr's The Windward Road."
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