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The narrow Darién Gap, the only land bridge connecting South and Central America, encompasses a spectacularly hostile jungle, covered in steep mountains, dense rainforests, and flood-prone marshes. Known in Spanish as el infierno verde, or “the green hell,” it is one of the most inhospitable places in the world. Its terrain is too treacherous for roads, yet hundreds of thousands of refuge seekers contend with its horrors every year in the hopes of reaching the United States, still some three thousand miles away. And of the countless who set out for the border, an untold number never arrive.

Brought to you by Penguin. At the heart of this book is a highway. The A1; The Great North Road. A 400-mile multiplicity of ancient trackway, Roman road, pilgrim path, coach route and motorway that has run like a backbone through Britain for the last 2,000 years. In this genre-defying and...

A new podcast from Washington National Cathedral, exploring the intersection of sacred and civic.

As a boy, Robert D. Kaplan listened to his truck-driver father's evocative stories about traveling across America as a young man, travels in which he learned to understand the country from a ground-level perspective. In Earning the Rockies, Kaplan undertakes his own cross-country journey to recapture an appreciation and understanding of American geography that is often lost in the jet age.

This is the podcast that that takes you on our journey around the country in a 32 -foot RV with two parents, four kids, and a dog. Throughout our journey we discovered that our views, the local culture, similarities, as well as differences…. our problems and perspectives are all a little bigger on the inside. Throughout the next 8-10 episodes we’ll be taking you on a trip with us as we reflect on the 18 months that our family traveled around continental United States. This isn’t a narrated itinerary of all the things we things we did or a lecture on how to pack up your life and hit the ...