As a child Robin Bayley was enchanted by his grandmothers stories of Mexican adventures: of bandits wild jungle journeys hidden bags of silver & a narrow escape from the bloody Mexican Revolution. But Robin sensed there was more to these stories than anyone knew & so he set out to follow in the footsteps of his great-grandfather. The Mango Orchard" is the story of parallel journeys a hundred years apart into the heart of Latin America. Undaunted by the passage of time & a paucity of information Robin seeks out the places where his great grandfather Arthur Arturo Greenhalgh travelled & lived determined to uncover his legacy. Along the road Robin encounters witches drug dealers a gun-toting Tasmanian Devil & an ex-Nazi diamond trader. He is threatened with deportation offered the protection of Colombian guerrilla fighters & is comforted by the blessings of los santos. He falls in love with a beautiful Guatemalan girl with mystical powers & almost gives up his quest until a sense of destiny drives him on to western Mexico & the discovery of much much more than he had bargained for."