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Carregando... Out of the Wild: Seven Years in the Wildernessde Charlie Paterson
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Fascinating story. Wow the trials of living in the wilderness in this New Zealand forest is massively challenging. So many things to think about, and do and the red tape for everything ! The silence was deafening and a blessing. This was a very different read for me I was glues to his story. ( ) What drives a person to spend all of his money on uninhabited land in a rainforest/national park/world Heritage area alone with little money and no electricity. This and more is presented by a man who did just that. History of New Zealand and Fiordland national park is interspersed in this man's personal story of life before and during an experience that tested his limits to a degree few are willing to face. He exposes to the reader all that he learned and what it has meant to him. I found it to be a thoroughly fascinating reading experience while sitting in my empty nest in Wisconsin. I won a free ebook copy in a Goodreads Giveaway. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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Seven years in the Fiordland National Park one mans tale of adversity and building a dream with little more than dogged determination. Not the standard romantic wilderness survival tale, but an honest, warts and all account of one young man's unique journey, striving to survive for seven years in a very remote rainforest location inside New Zealand's Fiordland National Park, three days walk away from the nearest road end. A true story of isolation and loneliness, away from all the modern conveniences and comforts most take for granted, Charlie's tale is one of adversity, building a dream with dogged determination. Battling against considerable and powerful opposition, bureaucracy, severe lack of money, unforgiving nature, himself and ultimately his own ill health; only to find the dream fulfilled will almost destroy him.
Out of the Wild is more than just a candid wilderness survival tale but includes some very interesting snippets of New Zealand's early pioneer history associated to the Fiordland National Park, the Hollyford Valley, Martins Bay, the beautiful deserted ghost town of Jamestown Bay and even the fabled 'lost ruby mine' in the inaccessible Red Hills of the Southern Alps. For the outdoor and 'back to basics' enthusiasts Charlie details his accounts of hunting red deer in the thick Fiordland rainforest around his wilderness home to using the old traditional methods to store his kills, through to trapping introduced predators destroying the special rainforest ecosystems, to living off the smell of an oily rag. Out of the Wild is a unique New Zealand wilderness tale. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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