{"product_id":"the-darin-gap-beln-fernndez-9781978842083","title":"The Dari?n Gap: A Reporter's Journey Through the Deadly Crossroads of the Americas","description":"\u003cb\u003eA Reporter's Journey Through the Deadly Crossroads of the Americas\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The narrow Dari?n 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 \u003ci\u003eel infierno verde\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this book, journalist Bel?n Fern?ndez visits the Dari?n Gap to report on the dehumanizing and deadly stretch of land that has become a mass graveyard for migrants. Fern?ndez's travels bring her into contact with refuge seekers, people smugglers, law enforcement officials, and many more whose stories bring life to a place overwhelmingly associated with death. Combining history, on-the-ground reporting, travelogue, memoir, and searing politico-economic analysis, she shines light on a largely made-in-the-USA crisis that has come to define our modern era. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Engrossing and heartrending, \u003ci\u003eThe Dari?n Gap \u003c\/i\u003eis a poignant and compassionate indictment of structural inequality and institutionalized inhumanity in a world where the have-nots must risk death for a chance at a better life--or any life at all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bel?n Fern?ndez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1978842082\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781978842083\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/12\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 226\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Bel?n Fern?ndez","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46526176526591,"sku":"9781978842083","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_566fa249-1b93-4be4-ae70-859b6d137b9c.jpg?v=1737555415","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-darin-gap-beln-fernndez-9781978842083","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}