The Sea and the Jungle

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

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