The gringo trail
Subtitle: a darkly comic road-trip through South America
By: Mark Mann
Publisher: Summersdale
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chichester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781848393844; 9781848393912; 9781783722044; 9781849530637
Subjects: Travel; Description and travel; TRAVEL; General
Description: '... there I was in the middle of Bogotá, coked up to my eyeballs, in a hallway holding two machetes, while some drunk Colombians argued about whether or not to blow up a bar with a live hand grenade...' Asia has the hippie trail. South America has the gringo trail. Mark Mann and his girlfriend Melissa set off to explore the ancient monuments, mountains and rainforests of South America. But for their friend Mark, South America meant only one thing: drugs. Sad, funny and shocking, The Gringo Trail is an On the Road for the Lonely Planet generation - a darkly comic road-trip and a revealing jo.
Notes: Originally published: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references.