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"Best Story of Adventure and Survival in the Jungles of the Amazon."

Yossi Ghinsberg is an adventurer.\\xa0 A wandering soul seeking not the prize of a conquest, but a connection with tribal cultures around the world.\\xa0 He is a best-selling author, award winning speaker and was featured on the Discovery Channel.

After finishing his hitch with the Israeli navy, Yossi traveled to South America in search of his dream of finding the El Dorado and of befriending a lost Amazonian tribe.\\xa0 He and three others set off into the uncharted jungle in the Madidi region of the Amazon.\\xa0 The hardships of the jungle caused two of his fellow adventurers to split of and attempt to return to civilization.\\xa0 They were never seen again.\\xa0 A rafting accident on the Tuichi River left Yossi alone in this inhospitable place.\\xa0 Attacked by insects (Yossi had to cut burrowing worms out of his forehead), stalked by jaguar, hungry and alone, Yossi fought to survive.\\xa0 This epic story of adventure and survival is the basis of his best-selling book Lost in the Jungle and the movie Jungle.

This ordeal transformed him.\\xa0 He learned that \\u201cThe gift of life is not to be taken for granted.\\xa0 Nothing is mundane, it is all a miracle.\\u201d\\xa0 A philosophy expressed in his late friend Vesty Pakos\\u2019 war cry \\u201cWhere is it? Where is it?\\xa0 It is here! It is here!\\u201d\\xa0 Yossi continues today traveling the world in his unique style seeking out tribal cultures-befriending the Bedouin, traveling through the Sahara, and living among the islanders on Carteret Island in Papua New Guinea.



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Whiskey and a Map:\\xa0 Stories of Adventure and Exploration as told by those who lived them.