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Beyond The Ranges
“The moon had passed its zenith, and was now inching its way down towards the west. I was dog-tired, yet didn’t expect sleep to come easily. Nothing ever comes easily in the jungle – only suffering. And death.”
A JOURNEY INTO THE UNKNOWN.
Cape Town, 1924: Mathew Travis, a discontented boat-repairman caught up in a dull and aimless existence, sets out on a quest to realize his boyhood dream of exploring the Amazon. Together with Jack Byrne, a brazen American bent on fulfilling his long-dead father’s ambition, and Hans Kessler, an obsessive German historian searching for an emerald mine, he ventures deep into the vast Brazilian rainforest.
Day and night of hardship in the unforgiving jungle environment erodes Travis’ romantic sentiments of the Amazon and exposes his shortcomings as an explorer. But this pales before the events that befall him when he crosses the frontiers of the known world and enters the territory of bloodthirsty cannibals. In the savage heart of an uncharted wilderness, his fight for survival takes on epic proportions and leads him to a discovery, as he puts it, ‘unimagined by man’.
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A JOURNEY INTO THE UNKNOWN.
Cape Town, 1924: Mathew Travis, a discontented boat-repairman caught up in a dull and aimless existence, sets out on a quest to realize his boyhood dream of exploring the Amazon. Together with Jack Byrne, a brazen American bent on fulfilling his long-dead father’s ambition, and Hans Kessler, an obsessive German historian searching for an emerald mine, he ventures deep into the vast Brazilian rainforest.
Day and night of hardship in the unforgiving jungle environment erodes Travis’ romantic sentiments of the Amazon and exposes his shortcomings as an explorer. But this pales before the events that befall him when he crosses the frontiers of the known world and enters the territory of bloodthirsty cannibals. In the savage heart of an uncharted wilderness, his fight for survival takes on epic proportions and leads him to a discovery, as he puts it, ‘unimagined by man’.
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350 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 1, 2011
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March 4, 2024
A very fast-moving adventure story with as much action as anyone could find in this genre. Most entertaining especially reading the final 2/3 after an adventure of my own, shattering my femur in a bad fall from my MTB.
December 29, 2023
A rollercoaster adventure through the Amazon Jungle - I highly recommend !
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