The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux [FIRST EDITION] 1982 • Houghton Mifflin

  The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux FIRST EDITION [1982] HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 3rd printing / 1982.  Hardcover with dust jacket in very good condition.  Dust jacket has some visible wear but is overall clean, vibrant and in tact with one mid-sized edge tear to upper front.  Otherwise very nice.  *Now housed in a new HQ brodart jacket protector.  Book itself is near mint.  Clean tight boards.  Reads as new.  In a breathtaking adventure story, the paranoid and brilliant inventor Allie Fox takes his family to live in the Honduran jungle, determined to build a civilization better than the one they've left. Fleeing from an America he sees as mired in materialism and conformity, he hopes to rediscover a purer life. But his utopian experiment takes a dark turn when his obsessions lead the family toward unimaginable danger.