The Sea and the Jungle, H. M. Tomlinson
The Sea and the Jungle, H. M. Tomlinson
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The Sea and the Jungle

Author: H. M. Tomlinson

Narrator: Frederick Davidson

Unabridged: 10 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/12/2008

Categories: Nonfiction, Travel

Synopsis

One rainy morning in the winter of 1909, a man with an altogether average look about him quit his job at the London Morning Leader, kissed his wife and children goodbye, and took a train to Swansea in Wales, where he talked his way aboard a freighter bound for somewhere in the upper reaches of the Amazon. Three years later, Tomlinson published a book about his adventures. This book made him famous. The Sea and the Jungle, wrote David McCord, is an invitation to a new experience. It is more than that: an invitation to a new attitude toward life. Sadness perhaps, but no harshness; concern, but no diminution of spirit; doubt, but no hauling down the ensign. The right good book, says Mr. Tomlinson, is always a book of travel: it is about a lifes journey.

About H. M. Tomlinson

Henry Major Tomlinson (1873–1958) was a British writer and journalist who wrote about London, the sea, the tropics, and the futility of war. He wrote many novels—including Gallions Reach, All Our Yesterdays, and Morning Light—but is probably best known for his travel books, including The Turn of the Tide and London River.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on June 29, 2011

The travel gene is dominant in my make-up. (That's what comes of having been born in Cleveland.) I had heard of this book for decades: When I saw it on the shelf in the Santa Monica Public Library, I picked it up and checked it out. It took about three pages for me to get totally hooked, and that de......more

Goodreads review by Bob on October 23, 2017

Death by Chocolate---in print! Well, an Englishman decides his work and family can be jettisoned for a few months and he heads off aboard a coal freighter from England to a town in the heart of the Amazon, down the Madeira River to a dot on the map called Porto Velho, almost to Bolivia. This is in 19......more

Goodreads review by Aaron on January 30, 2011

Never having heard of H.M. Tomlinson, and never having read a travel book, it was Time Life's meager introduction which compelled me to purchase this volume for 75 cents. I both liked that it took place mostly on a ship, the Capella, and that the Amazon was visited. The prose of Tomlinson was not at......more

Goodreads review by Tom on March 04, 2025

This book was a revelation to me about the lyrical writing of travel writer Tomlinson. I really enjoyed his vivid metaphor and effective telegraphing of the awe and wonder he felt in his first-time venture at sea travel and the Amazon with its rivers, life, and pioneering rubber plantations. Rather......more

Goodreads review by Sohail on October 14, 2022

Not merely the best piece of travel writing that I have ever read, but also a literary masterpiece that can stand out when competing with books of other genres. Honest, keen, witty and full of grace, this is one 'paradise' of a book.......more

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