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Ruthless river : love and survival by raft on the Amazon's relentless Madre de Dios / Holly FitzGerald.
Title:
Ruthless river : love and survival by raft on the Amazon's relentless Madre de Dios / Holly FitzGerald.
Author:
FitzGerald, Holly Conklin.
ISBN:
9780525432777
Personal Author:
Publication Date:
2017
Publication Info:
New York :

Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC,

2017.
Physical Description:
xii, 316 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 21 cm
General Note:
"A Vintage departures original"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Prologue -- Waiting -- The plane -- Jungle trail -- Sepa -- Prisoners -- Puerto Maldonado -- Finding a raft -- Launch day -- First day on the river -- The border -- Flying free -- The storm -- Where are we? -- The rains poured down -- Hope -- The logjam -- Dead tree -- Wrestling match -- Little balsa -- SOS -- High noon -- Swimming with Becky -- Log bed -- Quickmud -- Rant -- Desire -- Butterflies -- Little moments -- Bees -- What I want -- Epiphany -- Snails -- Like sticks -- My hero -- Marsh birds -- Rising fear -- Tiny frogs -- Time meshes -- Chasing the monkey -- Banana chips -- Barraca -- Maryknoll -- Riberalta -- Epilogue.
Summary:
"A young married couple, Holly FitzGerald and her husband, Fitz--married less than two years--set out on a yearlong honeymoon adventure of a lifetime, backpacking around the world. Five months into the trip their plane crash lands in a Peruvian penal colony walled in by jungle and suddenly their blissfully romantic journey turns into a terrifying labyrinth of escape and survival. On a small, soon-to-be-ravaged raft that becomes their entire universe, through dangerous waters alive with deadly animals and fish, their only choice is to continue on, despite the rush of insects swarming them by day, the sounds of encroaching predators at night. Without food or means of communication, with no one to hear their cries for help or a search-and-rescue expedition to find them, the author and her husband make their way, fighting to conquer starvation and navigate the brute force of the river, their only hope for survival is to somehow miraculously hang on and find their way east to a large riverside town, before it is too late...."--Page [4] of cover.
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