Ruthless river : love and survival by raft on the Amazon's relentless Madre de Dios / Holly FitzGerald.
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 : PAP
- ISBN: 0525432779 : PAP
- Physical Description: xii, 316 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Vintage Departures, Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2017.
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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. |
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Subject: | FitzGerald, Holly Conklin > Travel > Amazon River Region. Amazon River Region > Description and travel. Amazon River > Description and travel. |
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North Branch Area Library | 918.1 F (Text) | 32050008266352 | Nonfiction | Available | - |