Desert Hawk Books

 

The Jungle and the Damned

Hassoldt Davis

 

334 pages
19 Photographs
Map
6" x 9"
Paperback

Quantity:  $16.95 & S/H

 

"As a honeymoon, all this may not appeal to those who have preciously leaned toward Bermuda.  As reading matter, it is something else again - a tale of adventure." - New York Times.

"A colorful, exciting chronicle of exploration into one of the of the world's most dangerous and least know areas." - Chicago Sunday Tribune.

"Lyrical and poetic." - Christian Science Monitor.

"It is never possible to get the whole of a really good book of exploration into a review.  This is such a book.  There is not a slow moment in it." - San Francisco Chronicle.

"Vivid  and intimate pictures of docile and hostile jungles, of unknown peoples and a great uncomfortable world which have a definitely popular appeal." - Kirkus.

Hassoldt Davis (1907-1959) was an adventurer and travel writer whose work Ernest Hemingway once described as "fantastic ... magnificent."  With his intrepid new wife, filmmaker Ruth Staudinger, Dacis sets off on an improbable honeymoon, first to Devil's Island, and then down an unexplored river in the interior of French Guiana.  The result is a swashbuckling saga that deserves a place on any adventure bookshelf.