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A Housewife in the Jungle is Ruth Snyder’s story of her family’s 1953 move to the village of La Dorada, in the jungles of Colombia. Husband Don Snyder had been offered a position supervising the construction of a section of railroad track through the area and his family, unaware of what they were getting into, traveled with him.

Ruth labored for almost two years to create some semblance of a normal life for her suburban Pasadena family, cooking with balky primitive stoves that could squirt black oil all over the kitchen without notice, searching outdoor markets, wrestling with generators, homeschooling her daughters and in a thousand other ways dealing with an entirely different world that challenged her ingenuity.

All the while there were snakes, parrots, bulls, floods, voracious insects, and impassible roads that were often reduced to long stretches of mud. Still, Ruth, a veteran teacher who had taught in a one-room schoolhouse in the Mojave desert, faced it all with good humor and kept her family healthy and happy as she learned to adapt to her second home.

Written as present to her daughters so they would know how incredible their two years in Colombia were, A Housewife in the Jungle was never intended for publication. Daughter Carol thought others would enjoy Ruth’s memoir, and published it as a tribute to her steely resolve to make the most of a terrific adventure.

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