Swimming with Crocodiles (eBook)

The True Story of a Young Man in Search of Meaning and Adventure Who Finds Himself in an Epic Struggle for Survival

Will Chaffey (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2011
328 Seiten
Arcade Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-62872-128-7 (ISBN)

Infos

In the tradition of Into the Wild, here is the riveting story of a young man seeking his own truth and finding adventure in the awesome, unforgiving power of nature. Will Chaffey is eighteen when he boards a plane in New York bound for Australia. Taking time off to work and travel, Will meets an enigmatic wanderer and herpetologist. Together they cross the inland desert to the tropical northwest coast, home to the saltwater crocodile, a known man- eater and a predator who has been hunting since the age of the dinosaurs. They devise a plan to explore the remote Prince Regent River, a trek so dangerous it had never been attempted by outsiders. Passing through harsh, primeval country, shadowed by their own exhaustion, and physically worn down, they find themselves locked in a life-and-death struggle when their food runs out and, unable to leave, they are stalked by a hungry crocodile. Filled with scenes of great natural beauty, Swimming with Crocodiles is at once the affecting account of a journey into adulthood and a hair- raising epic of survival.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2011
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Australien / Neuseeland / Ozeanien
• Schlagworte: Alfred Adler • auschwitz concentration • australian outback • avoid suffering • bear witness • camp experiences • camp life • camp prisoner • choose ones • constantly sets • death camps • dr frankl • existential crisis • existential frustration • feeling hopeless • fellow prisoners • finding meaning • finding purpose • frankl describes • frankl discusses • frankl's account • frankl's experiences • frankl's theory • gas chamber • german concentration • Holocaust survivor • horrendous conditions • human existenc • human freedoms • huts comforting • inner tension • king cascade • life differs • life expected • life meaning • lucky chances • mans search • meaning exists • Mental Health • Mental Illness • nazi concentration • nazi death • potential meaning • pregnant wife • primary motivation • prison guards • psychology class • saltwater crocodile • self help helping people • Sigmund Freud • Spiritual life • sufficient proof • Survival Story • survived auschwitz • tragic optimism • true adventure • True story • unavoidable suffering • victor frankl • viktor frankl psychological theories • wwii concentration
• ISBN-10: 1-62872-128-6 / 1628721286
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62872-128-7 / 9781628721287