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This true-life adventure-travel story follows John Harrison and his wife Heather deep into an unexplored region of the Amazon rainforests in the Guiana Highlands that border Brazil. With just a canoe and a shotgun, the newlyweds followed the most remote tributary of the Amazon River without any means of contacting civilization. Harrison tells their story as, unaided and off the map, they encounter jaguars and poisonous frogs, are threatened by malaria, and almost lose their way entirely. While experiencing travel at its most raw, they struggle to keep their deteriorating sanity and relationship intact in one of the most hostile and unforgiving places in the world. Far more harrowing than reality shows like Survivor and Amazing Race, this is armchair adventure at its most honest and compelling.
Author Biography: John Harrison has been a tour leader in South America and has extensively explored the Amazon, the Niger, and rivers in North America and Europe. He has been profiled by National Geographic TV, is a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, and has chaired their tropical forest workshops. He has also lectured on ships traveling up the Amazon for a number of cruise lines.
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Juan Mendoza
reviewed Off the Map: A Journey Through the Amazonian Wild on June 22, 2010
Off the Map
Aw. Sweet. Just realised he signed my copy "great to meet you" and "with best wishes" December 2001. Not that that in any way influences my memory of this as a brilliantly vivid portrayal of the Amazonian adventures of John and Heather Harrison on foot and in canoe. Repeating the expedition of a chap who died on it was always going to be a dodgy proposition. Doing it on foot carrying and sometimes paddling a collapsible canoe, with no contact with the outside world even more dodgy. So of course, it goes awry in ways you would never expect but with potentially fatal consequences both to the people and the relationship.
A lovely moment, when they have almost finished their travels but come up against a couple of officious young blokes who try to turn them back to Brazil.
"Listen you little creeps. Just get out of our way" says John.
So very English. And quite 1950's, to be honest but it made me smile - especially the way he and Heather then paddle like crazy, trying to do a runner in their canoe but are suddenly struck by the ridiculousness of their predicament and end up laughing too hard to paddle at all.
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