The Mosquito Coast

by Robin Waterfield (Adaptor), Paul Theroux

Allie Fox hates America and he hates the twentieth century. He takes his wife and children to the jungle in Honduras to make a new, simple life. But Allie starts to go mad and pulls his family into a life which is much worse and more frightening than anything they knew in America.

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58 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1995

About the author

Robin Anthony Herschel Waterfield (born 1952) is a British classical scholar, translator, editor, and writer of children's fiction. Waterfield was born in 1952, and studied Classics at Manchester University, where he achieved a first class degree in 1974. He went on to research ancient Greek philosophy at King's College, Cambridge until 1978, after which he became a lecturer at Newcastle University and then St Andrews University. He later became a copy-editor and later a commissioning editor for Penguin Books. He is now a self-employed writer, living in southern Greece, where he has Greek citizenship.

Reviews

[Janete on hiatus due health issues · Rating 2 out of 5]

This retold book for people that is learning English is really awful. I keep thinking: is the original book so bad? It's the forth time that I re-read this book and listen to the MP3. I hope never more read "The Mosquito Coast", because the main character is unbearable, bossy, arrogant, rough... But, thanks God, that read a book with audio is easier than without audio. I hope that audible get to Brazil soon. Here we have amazon, but not yet audible.

[Rachelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely loved this book! A genius obsessed with his inventions, decides to take his family into South America and falls into mental illness, trying to show primitive men his ice invention, he falls into delusions and the family has to cope in a foreign country. This book is a page turner. I enjoyed this book a lot.

[메기짱 · Rating 3 out of 5]

I don't really like this book because as I read it, I didn't feel interested. It reminded me of the movie, Tarzan. At last, the man died because a hawk flew and ate part of his body. After that, I think his family will go back to London and maybe, they will be happy.

[Mighty Lee · Rating 3 out of 5]

I hated this book so much....;;
This book was about the family who thinks America has poisoned. But the circumstances that happens in this made me sick..

[Namiko]

What a father! I just wonder why his wife follow him. I think it is written comically, so the ending was shocking for me.