Amazon Hitchhiker: A Woman's Adventures from Canada to Brazil

Amazon Hitchhiker is an extraordinary young woman's true story of adventure, survival, and fearless independence.

In the 1970s, Alycin Hayes sets out alone from Canada, hitchhiking south through the United States, Mexico, and Central America in pursuit of a dream that leads her deep into South America. Reaching the edge of the Amazon River, she buys an old dugout canoe, convinced she can paddle the mighty Amazon from Colombia to Brazil.

She is unprepared for what awaits.

With no map, little fo...