Jungle

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'Jungle' is a classic adventure book in the spirit of 'The Treasure of Sierra Madre' and 'Heart of Darkness'. Based on a real-life adventure, this story of survival deals with two central themes: what does a man become once civilisation is left behind, and the struggle to survive the elements of the natural world.

'Jungle' is an international bestselling book that has been translated into six languages and published in fifteen countries.

Four backpackers set out for the heart of the Amazon... Marcus, the frail Swiss mystic; Karl, the shifty Austrian geologist with a shady past; Kevin, the well-intentioned American photographer; and Yossi, the Israeli dreamer and eager explorer. 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. Of the four who set out, only two will come back.

Jungle is the incredible true story of Yossi's triumph over the most adverse and frightening of circumstances. This is a tale of survival and human fortitude against the wildest backdrop on the planet.

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A real page-turner, with all of the elements of a great adventure saga, Heart of the Amazon could prove to be the from-out-of-nowhere best-seller of the season.

When four men met in La Paz, they couldn't know that their decision to trek through uncharted territory in Bolivia would have a horrifying outcome.

At the time, Ghinsberg was a young Israeli who had rejected the comforts of a predictable life and had opted instead for an extended road trip through South America. Before it was over, he would survive near-starvation, a vicious attack by termites, the evils of quicksand, and other amazing perils over a period of three weeks--alone and lost in a remote Bolivian rain forest.

Marcus, a Swiss, and the mysterious Austrian, Karl, would never be heard from again. But Kevin Gale, an American, enlisted the aid of the local Takana-Quetchua Indians to rescue his lost friend. Ghinsberg, who since has returned to Tuichi and made it his home, first wrote his book in Hebrew.

It sold 75,000 copies in Israel and was translated into Swedish; it has sold 100,000 copies in Sweden.

Alice Joyce