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Walking the Amazon

Ed Stafford

2012336 pagesabout 5–8 hours
2012
first published
  • 2012Plume Books · 336 pages · ENGISBN 9780452298262

Describes the author's quest to walk the entire length of the Amazon River, offering details on the effects of deforestation and his encounters with both vicious animals and tribal members with machetes. Ed Stafford became the first man to walk the length of the Amazon river in South America from the source to the sea. He walked for 860 days. He started on 2nd April 2008 and finished in August 2010. No one had ever done what he attempted. - Publisher.

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