Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival

Face-to-face with a jaguar, Yossi Ghinsberg is not merely deep in the jungle, he's in deep trouble.Four backpackers set out for the heart of the Amazon... Marcus, the frail Swiss mystic; Karl, the shifty Austrian geologist with a shady past; Kevin, the well-intentioned American photographer; and Yossi, the Israeli dreamer and eager reporter. But what begins as a dream adventure quickly deteriorates into a dangerous nightmare, and after weeks of wandering in the dense undergrowth the four backpackers split up. Of the four who set out, only two will come back.Heart of the Amazon is the incredible true story of Yossi's triumph over the most adverse and frightening of circumstances. This is a tale of survival and human fortitude against the wildest backdrop on the planet.This book was originally published in Hebrew as Ba-h?azarah mi-T?u?its'i. It was translated into English by Yael Politis and Stanley Young. It has been published in several countries under different names, including Heart of the Amazon: The Harrowing Life-and-Death Story of Survival in the South American Jungle, Back from Tuichi: The Harrowing Life-and-Death Story of Survival in the Amazon Rainforest, and Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival in the Amazon. His story was also made into a movie Jungle starring Daniel Radcliffe as Yossi, and featured in the documentary series I Shouldn't Be Alive on the Discovery Channel.