**A 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. . . .
