Amazon Hitchhiker:
A Woman's Adventures from Canada to Brazil
by Alycin Hayes
Available in paperback or ebook worldwide wherever good books are sold
An incredible True Story
An incredible True Story
A #1 New Release Best Seller on Amazon
"It is almost impossible to explain how it feels to be lost in the middle of nowhere with no end in sight. Dawn began with the call of exotic wild birds as the sun peeked over our lifeline: the muddy Putumayo River. We ate a meager breakfast of leftovers from supper the night before and set out in our leaky dugout canoe, each taking turns paddling until we became too tired.
Exhausted and wondering if we were ever going to find an end to this endless river adventure, we were rewarded when loud calls from above revealed a brilliantly colored, large flock of red tailed macaw parrots flying overhead. Their joyous freedom in flight was contagious. They inspired us to continue on through this everchanging dangerous green wilderness."
Excerpt from AMAZON HITCHHIKER: A Woman’s Adventures from Canada to Brazil
Exhausted and wondering if we were ever going to find an end to this endless river adventure, we were rewarded when loud calls from above revealed a brilliantly colored, large flock of red tailed macaw parrots flying overhead. Their joyous freedom in flight was contagious. They inspired us to continue on through this everchanging dangerous green wilderness."
Excerpt from AMAZON HITCHHIKER: A Woman’s Adventures from Canada to Brazil
Amazon Hitchhiker is Alycin Hayes' extraordinary true story of adventure and survival. As a young woman she hitchhikes alone in the 1970s from Canada south across the USA, Mexico, and Central America into the rivers and mystical rainforests of the wild Amazon. On the spur of the moment, she buys an old dugout canoe, thinking she can paddle from Colombia to Brazil.
Without enough food or even a map, she soon discovers the Amazon rainforest is not the idyllic paradise she had imagined. She forges her way through this challenging, sometimes mystical adventure, facing life-threatening obstacles, while falling in love on the journey
With candid honesty and a lifesaving sense of humor, Hayes has written an account of her travels that readers can't stop reading.
Without enough food or even a map, she soon discovers the Amazon rainforest is not the idyllic paradise she had imagined. She forges her way through this challenging, sometimes mystical adventure, facing life-threatening obstacles, while falling in love on the journey
With candid honesty and a lifesaving sense of humor, Hayes has written an account of her travels that readers can't stop reading.
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What are readers saying about Amazon Hitchhiker?
" A must read for anyone interested in travel, adventure, world relations, rural poverty, the kindness of strangers, taking risks, and living your dreams."
"Move over Indian Jones, you have met your match! ”
"Riveting! Dove right in and didn't come up for air until I finished it.
What a fascinating story, with glimpses of a world we can only imagine today. I highly recommend this book"
"I loved this book. Alycin Hayes brings back a time of free-spirited adventure we may never see again."
" Hayes is a wonderful story teller"
"This book awakened my adventurous side... I read it at once during my flight to Brazil for the holidays. I could not put it down until I was finished...What an adventurous and courageous woman! And to have done this in the 70s... Double WOW! "
" I couldn’t put this down and kept on reading into the night. Alycin’s intrepid and compelling sense of adventure, combined with a gift of telling her story in such a way that takes us right along with her makes this book such a delight. I highly recommend this book."
"I absolutely LOVED this book !! Could not put it down, wanting to know what happened next in this authors extraordinary adventures. Her bravery of continuing to discover more of the Amazon and its peoples and landscape blew me away. "
"If ever a book was screaming to be made into a movie, it's this one. If "The Celestine Prophecy" and "Travels With Charley" had a child it might be Alycin Hayes' moving, witty and unflinchingly honest chronicle of her real life odyssey from Canada to canoe the world's longest river...
"I absolutely loved "Amazon Hitchhiker. Alycin Hayes takes you on a real life adventure, you can only imagine in your wildest dreams!"
"I loved this book. Alycin Hayes brings back a time of free-spirited adventure we may never see again.
"This book awakened my adventurous side... I read it at once during my flight to Brazil for the holidays. I could not put it down until I was finished... What an adventurous and courageous woman! And to have done this in the 70s... Double WOW! "
"My most inspiring moment after writing "Amazon Hitchhiker" was when the marvelous David Attenborough took the time to send me an encouraging handwritten note" - Alycin Hayes
National Geographic's 2012 Adventurer of the year, British Author, Alistair Humphreys, recommended “Amazon Hitchhiker” in his newsletter "Shouting from the Shed."
Some of the isolated tribes Alycin met on her Amazonian canoe trip kept Wooly Monkey's as pets.
An interview with Alycin Hayes about Amazon Hitchhiker was a featured article in the Bulgarian Book Club.
Author, Alycin Hayes hiked to the top of Machu Picchu in Peru.
Author, Alycin Hayes, paddling her dugout canoe in the Amazon.
A breathtaking sunset in the Amazon. Photo by one of Alycin's canoemates, Paulo Estevaletto
