Brazil’s Island of the Damned
Teresa Cristina de Brito Pinheiro dos Anjos is sitting on her kitchen step watching me tie up my hammock. I have the feeling that…
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The world’s 7 greatest jungle destinations
If you haven’t been on a serious trip to any of these…well, what ON EARTH have you been up to? 1/ Amazon Where: At 2.5…
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How to Hire a Jungle Guide
[words & photograph © Mark Eveleigh] The following advice may not instil in you all the mental philosophies of jungle survival – it will…
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Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
What can be said that is new about this all-time great? But then again this is the third time I have read it and…
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Blindness – Jose Saramago
A fantastic book and a deserving all-time classic. A book that is completely haunting in its intensity…not easily forgotten after reading it. The book…
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Gabriela: Clove and Cinnamon – Jorge Amado
I bought this book in a secondhand store in Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. It took a while to get around to reading it and in…
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Night of the turtle invasion
[words © Mark Eveleigh] The sun rose on a battlefield that was thick with flying dust. Hunched shapes lay in tortured postures, writhing on the sand….
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The teachings of Don Ignacio
[words and photograph © Mark Eveleigh] The chilled mountain mist that sits heavily in the cobbled lanes is beginning to rise as the Guatemalan sun…
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The beast that kills with one leap
[words and photograph Mark Eveleigh] I am on my hands and knees on the jungle floor trying to blend in with dozens of white-nosed…
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Ganglands, part IV: San Pedro prison
[words and photograph © Mark Eveleigh] I’d arrived in La Paz at the end of a long assignment that had taken me all the…
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