If you would like some excitement in your life, try reading Lost In the Amazon.* It is a true story of a professional wildlife photographer named Stephen Kirkpatrick. He and four others got lost in the jungles of the Amazon but lived to tell the tale. Or rather, as told by Kirkpatrick's wife, Marlo Carter Kirkpatrick.
Kirkpartrick had been tasked to document never-before-seen wildlife but with faulty maps, decisions and torrential rains, etc, they got hopelessly lost in the amazing maze of Amazon rainforest.
This photographer's faith in God and perseverance, helped him in his wandering in the absolute dark of dark nights, avoid being fatal fodder for insects and other jungle fauna, and being stuck in thick sticky mud, among the other obstacles and challenges that beset them.
Then there was "the voice" of hope in the midst of their desperate living nightmare,
"You'll get out."
Was it real? Or just wishful thinking illusion?
I won't tell you how they did get out; that you will have to explore for yourselves, except to say...oh no, I won't say it.
But how was that to be accomplished? Did the precious cameras and rolls of film (yes, from that era), full of "captured" exotic flora, as well as fauna, survive the swamping in the river and rivulets of sweat the constantly braised them? How did these experiences change these men: for better or for worse? Could men really be so emotional?
Your hearts will be in your throats as you bushwhack right along with the men in this true expedition experience that went awry.
It is believed that you will find this a very worthwhile read.
~ERC January 2021~
*(This particular chronicle is not to be confused with another of the same name but by a Todd Olson.)
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