Download or read book The Jungle and the Damned written by Hassoldt Davis and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hassoldt Davis (1907?1959) was an adventurer and travel writer whose work Ernest Hemingway once described as ?fantastic . . . magnificent.? With his intrepid new wife, filmmaker Ruth Staudinger, Davis sets off on an improbable honeymoon,øfirst to Devil?s Island, and then down an unexplored river in the interior of French Guiana. The result is a swashbuckling saga that deserves a place on any adventure bookshelf.