Driving to Heaven: On Four Wheels in South, Central and North America by Derek Stansfield
Requirements: EPUB Reader | 1.56 MB
Overview: In October 1980, Marilyn and Derek Stansfield took a year off from their teaching jobs. They shipped their campervan to Montevideo, capital of the tiny South American repubic of Uruguay. Ten months later they reached New York, having covered almost 30,000 miles in South, Central and North America. Fifteen times they crossed the Andes, on several occasions driving as high as 16,000 feet in some of the worlds most inhospitable terrain. They and their van were nearly swept away in a Bolivian river, they were accused of spying in Peru, robbed three times; while, in Colombia, they suffered the agonies of air-freighting the van to Panama. The airline, they later discovered, had frequently been caught red-handed drug smuggling.
This book is the enthralling story of their remarkable journey. It not only tells of near disasters, but vividly describes the countless places which made an unforgettable impression on the couple – Brazils stunning Iguacu Falls which surpass even Niagara, the magnificent Argentinian Lake District, the equal of anything in Europe; the perfectly formed volcanoes of Chile; La Paz, Bolivias sky-high capital and Lake Titicaca. In Peru, there were the mysterious Nazca Lines and Andean peaks rising to 23,000 feet: in Honduras, the finest memorial left by the Mayan Indians at Copan: at Teotihuacan in Mexico, pyramids to rival those of Egypt.
Genre: Non Fiction | Travel
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