[DOWNLOAD] The Rio San Juan, Travels Along The Nicaragua Waterway by Gillian Lythgoe, Joe Brown ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free

August 07, 2021 Post a Comment

Joe Brown and Gillian Lythgoe, a middle-aged couple, take their canoe down the Rio San Juan to follow in the footsteps of earlier travellers and tell their story. Intertwined with their tale of the canoe trip, is a fantastic story of pre-Columbian peoples and their remains; the discovery of Nicaragua by Columbus and later, the Rio San Juan and Lake Cocibolca and the first route across the Americas by the Conquistadores. Adventurers came who marvelled at the country, the river andwildlife. Battles were fought on the river and the lake between the Spanish who wanted gold and glory, the British who wanted dominion, Indians trying to hang onto their land and Pirates, who just wanted the treasure. All struggled with encounters with jaguars, snakes, crocodiles, sharks and mosquitoes and the terror of screams in the jungle. Vanderbilt brought steamers to the river and through the rapids to the lake to transport gold miners from the eastern United States to California and William Walker brought strutting filibusters to fight in the political squabbles of Nicaragua. Finally, the competition between Nicaragua and Panama for a canal route across the isthmus was ultimately won by Panama due to the untimely explosion of a volcano and a postage stamp.