num_pages: 384
description: In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. But his utopian experiment takes a dark turn when his obsessions lead the family toward unimaginable danger.
language: English
title: The Mosquito Coast
titlecomplete: The Mosquito Coast
genres: Adventure, Classics, American, Travel, Novels, 20th Century, Literature, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 12406
places: Honduras
awards: awardedAt: 347184000000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 410256000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction (Hardcover)
publisher: Mariner Books