Jim Ashworth reviews The Mango Orchard by Robin Bayley and finds that it draws an interesting parallel with his own family history.

Most of us here at Journey Latin America have, at some point in our life, set out for Latin America with little more than a backpack, an out-of-date guidebook and a vague sense of what lies ahead in the hope of finding out a little more, not just of this magnificent land, but of ourselves. In Robin Bayley’s extraordinary story, The Mango Orchard, he discovers these things and a whole lot more.

The Mango Orchard is a heady mix of history, family secrets and fantastic travellers’ tales, filled with...