This exhilarating travel memoir takes readers through shipwrecks, border wars, snakebites and love affairs, revealing a remarkable portrait of adventure that crosses ten countries in the mid-1950s. ?The story beings in the 1950s as Israel Valderrama, a young man from a tiny village in Colombia, sets off to seek his fortune in Medellin. After meeting a group of Boy Scouts and hearing about a World Jamboree of Scouts in Niagara Falls, Canada, Valderrama takes his bicycle and sets out on a wild adventure through ten countries Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala,...