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Ruthless river : love and survival by raft on the Amazon's relentless Madre de Dios / Holly FitzGerald.
LIBRA F2546 .F559 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- FitzGerald, Holly Conklin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- FitzGerald, Holly Conklin--Travel--Amazon River Region.
- FitzGerald, Holly Conklin.
- Travel.
- Amazon River Region--Description and travel.
- Amazon River Region.
- Amazon River--Description and travel.
- Amazon River.
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
- TRAVEL / South America / Peru.
- TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure.
- Local Subjects:
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
- TRAVEL / South America / Peru.
- TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure.
- Genre:
- Travel writing.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 316 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2017]
- Summary:
- The author describes how her honeymoon was cut short when her plane crashed in the jungles of Peru, forcing her and her husband to try to survive aboard a makeshift raft as they made their way down the Amazon River to civilization.
- Contents:
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 9780525432777
- 0525432779
- OCLC:
- 964698292
- Publisher Number:
- 99972588485
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