num_pages: 320
description: Jonathan Kandell explores South America's heartland and finds cruelty and heroism, beauty and menace, as he travels from the petroleum rich fields of Peru to the cattle and cocaine of Bolivia, through inhospitable climate and terrain, piranhna infested waters, and dangerously unstable government bolstered by greed and corruption. The cast of characters includes hired gunmen, camp followers, cattle barons, narcotics czars, explorers and presidents, oil executives and road builders-- a remarkable modern-day odyssey.
language: English
title: Passage Through El Dorado: Travelling the World's Last Great Wilderness
titlecomplete: Passage Through El Dorado: Travelling the World's Last Great Wilderness
genres: Nonfiction, Travel
ratings_count: 23
publisher: Avon Books