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Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon's Relentless Madre de Dios (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780525432777)
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xA stunning debut; a Departures original publication. The ultimate survival story; a wild ride--the wildest--down a South American river in the thick of the Amazon Basin; a true and thrilling adventure of a young married couple who survive a plane crash only to later raft hundreds of miles across Peru and Bolivia, ending up in a channel to nowhere, a dead end so flooded there is literally no land to stand on. Their raft--a mere four logs--separates them from the piranha-and-caiman-infested water until they finally realize that there is no way out but to swim. Vintage Original.
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 Peru at a penal colony walled in by jungle, and their blissfully romantic journey turns into a terrifying nonstop labyrinth of escape and survival. On a small, soon-ravaged raft that quickly becomes their entire universe through dangerous waters alive with deadly animals and fish, their only choice: 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 on 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, in spite of hunger and weakening resolve, to somehow, miraculously hang on and find their way east to a large riverside town, before it is too late. . . .
Author: Holly Fitzgerald
ISBN-10: 0525432779
ISBN-13: 9780525432777
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 05/30/2017
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/01/2017 pg. 19
Library Journal 04/15/2017 pg. 98
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2017
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 Peru at a penal colony walled in by jungle, and their blissfully romantic journey turns into a terrifying nonstop labyrinth of escape and survival. On a small, soon-ravaged raft that quickly becomes their entire universe through dangerous waters alive with deadly animals and fish, their only choice: 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 on 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, in spite of hunger and weakening resolve, to somehow, miraculously hang on and find their way east to a large riverside town, before it is too late. . . .
Author: Holly Fitzgerald
ISBN-10: 0525432779
ISBN-13: 9780525432777
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 05/30/2017
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/01/2017 pg. 19
Library Journal 04/15/2017 pg. 98
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2017
By Holly Fitzgerald
xHOLLY FITZGERALD was born in Seattle, Washington, and grew up in New Haven, Connecticut. She graduated from Lake Erie College and received a master's degree in counseling from Suffolk University. FitzGerald worked as a counselor with children and adults for many years before teaching and counseling at Bristol Community College, New Bedford, Massachusetts. She lives in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
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