Ruthless river : love and survival by raft on the Amazon's relentless Madre de Dios
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525432777
- ISBN: 0525432779
- ISBN: 9780525432784
- ISBN: 0525432787
- Physical Description: xii, 316 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
- Publisher: New York : Vintage Departures, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2017.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Action Note: | housed 20180411 Colibri |
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Genre: | Travel writing. Travel writing. |
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Homer Public Library | 918.1104 FIT (Text) | 000145825 | Nonfiction | Available | - |