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The Cloud Garden: A True Story of Adventure, Survival, and Extreme Horticulture

The Cloud Garden: A True Story of Adventure, Survival, and Extreme Horticulture

by Dyke/Winder (Author)

  • Used

    Hardcover 2003

    $3.25

  • Used

    Paperback 2004

    $3.80
Synopsis

An almost impregnable strip of jungle between North and South America, the Darien Gap has been ravaged by civil wars, drug trafficking and guerrilla groups. Enthusiastic botanist Tom Hart Dyke, and merchant banker and explorer Paul Winder set off in search of orchids and adventure.

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More Information

Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 336
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Bantam Press
Published: 03 Mar 2003
ISBN 10: 0593050797
ISBN 13: 9780593050798
Book Overview: An exhilarating story of adventure, survival and extreme horticulture

Media Reviews
Clearly, surviving a nine-month jungle kidnapping requires courage and endurance. But Hart Dyke and Winder came equipped with something else in addition: pluck. It's that quality, crackling on every page, that makes The Cloud Garden one of the strangest and most satisfying adventure reads in recent memory. --Men's Journal magazine Written with humor and suspense, this is a vivid account of [Dyke's and Winder's] nine-month ordeal. Dual first-person viewpoints are seamlessly spliced together, and the format provides a prismatic presentation of contrasting attitudes, allowing each author to comment on the other. --Publishers Weekly Told in alternating voices (which works surprisingly well), this is a well-written adventure story filled with intrigue and hope. --Library Journal Readers will find themselves turning pages and delaying dinner while Winder and Dyke slowly blossom into the heroes of their own misguided adventure. --BookPage
Author Bio
Tom Hart Dyke is a botanist whose wild enthusiasm for plants is set to explode onto a television screen near you at any moment. Paul Winder, when he isn't in the jungle or up a mountain, works in the City of London as a banker.