Walking the Amazon: 860 Days. One Step at a Time., (Paperback)

from Big_Bang_Gorilla

In which an Englishman, accompanied by his Afro-Peruvian Sancho Panza, Cho, undertakes to walk the length of the Amazon, which, if accomplished, would be a first. Their sufferings are many, and often disturbing, despite the author's laconic, understated recounting of them (i.e., he mentions in pa...

from magistrab

I thought that Ed Stafford's achievement was amazing. The mental challenges of completely this task were incredible. This is an excellent book for those who involve travel writing. What I did not like about this book was the fact that some of the geographical and topographical descriptions were d...

from Shirezu

The first thing - Ed Stafford is crazy. I want to travel around South America but no way would I do this. Everyone said he'd never make it and he is probably lucky to have survived - floods, infections, hostile people, dangerous wildlife. Not to mention his mental state as he spent such a huge po...

from Daniel.Estes

Um... what? My expectations for Walking the Amazon were out of sync with how Stafford presents it. What I thought was going to be a transformative and deeply personal journey for the author instead focused on petty bickering with his short-lived partner and other trivial mentions of the hike. No ...

from untraveller

Not exactly a page turner. Also, I don't think I'd like to do any long difficult treks w/ this guy as he appears hard to get along with. Finally, he is just another fellow who wants his bit of fame and now he has it. The concept and the degree to which he expected himself to follow the concept wa...