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    Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival in the Amazon

    By Yossi Ghinsberg

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    About this ebook

    An Israeli adventurer recounts “a powerful story of self-discovery, survival in the wild” (Los Angeles Times).

    Four travelers meet in Bolivia and set off into the heart of the Amazon rainforest, 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 into two groups. But when a terrible rafting accident separates him from his partner, Yossi is forced to survive for weeks alone against one of the wildest backdrops on the planet. Stranded without a knife, map, or survival training, he must improvise shelter and forage for wild fruit to survive. As his feet begin to rot during raging storms, as he loses all sense of direction, and as he begins to lose all hope, he wonders whether he will make it out of the jungle alive.

    The basis of the motion picture starring Daniel Radcliffe, Jungle is the story of friendship and the teachings of nature, and a terrifying true account that you won’t be able to put down.

    Praise for Jungle

    “A damn good read . . . it has the immediacy that puts the reader right there in the biting, clinging, rash-provoking jungle.” —Lawrence Millman, author of Last Places

    “Simply breathtaking. Yossi’s story of survival haunted me for weeks.” —Bryce Courtenay, author of The Power of One

    “Told simply and yet with a novelist’s eye for structure and drama, the story unfolds like a nightmare movie.” —Sun Herald
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJun 9, 2015
    ISBN9781632208842
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    Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival in the Amazon
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    Yossi Ghinsberg

    Since surviving his incredible ordeal, Yossi Ghinsberg has become a public speaker much in demand – he has been on the Discovery Channel and Larry King in 2007 and travels around the world giving motivational talks. For more information on Yossi, see www.ghinsberg.com.

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    • 4/5
      A riveting tale of adventure, hope, and ultimately defying death in the Peruvian Amazon. This is the true story of Yossi Ghinsberg as he sets out on an Amazon exploration adventure with 3 others and ends up on his own trying to survive for the next 3 weeks. I kept putting myself in his situation and quite frankly it scared the crap out of me. I have no desire to see the movie as I don't think it could come close to what I was imagining him going through while reading this. A nice piece of work...recommended for all.
    • 4/5
      Good solid survival story, just like I like them!
    • 5/5
      What a great read.

      I added this book to my wish list cause I like survivor stories and this one was recommended to me by amazon plus it had good reviews.

      When I started I did not know anything really about this book and that is the best way to start reading so I won’t spoil here but I am going to tell you, if you like survivor stories buy this book. I can just say one word. Wow!!!

    • 4/5
      I usually read fiction but picked up this true account after reading a review. So glad I didn't pass it by. This is the story of four young men who meet in Boliva and plan a two-month trek into the jungle to look for gold. It is told in the first person by the author, Yossi Ghinsberg, and I love the way he writes. It's as though he's telling the story to a trusted friend. I was amazed at the poor judgement of these young men. It makes me want to get on Google Earth and look up some of these incredible remote villages in the jungle. Reading the book also spurred me on to Googling "shrunken heads", and that's all I'll say.
    • 3/5
      Yossi Ghinsberg's "Lost in the Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival" tells the story of Ghinsberg's trip into the Bolivian jungle and his three weeks surviving alone after being separated from his friends. As a survival story, it is pretty amazing as Ghinsberg survives starvation, jaguars, torrential rains and bugs before he is rescued. In that way the story is compelling. However, it was difficult to like the book because I so disliked Yossi -- who created a good portion of his own troubles and fell in with someone who was very obviously at best a con man. He appears to feel little remorse about one of his comrades, who was likely murdered (an idea that Ghinsberg doesn't even seem to entertain...) My dislike for the narrator definitely lessened my enjoyment of this book.