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Ed Stafford is a British explorer and the face of survival on the Discovery Channel. He holds the Guinness World Record for being the first person ever to walk the length of the Amazon River.
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- Geburtstag
- 1975-12-26
- Geschlecht
- male
- Geburtsort
- Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Wohnorte
- Leicestershire, England, UK
- Ausbildung
- Newcastle University (BS, Geography)
Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst - Organisationen
- British Army
- Agent
- Gordon Poole Agency
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This was an incredible feat by Ed Stafford and his companion Cho but this book is awful. The narrative is choppy and hard to follow, the descriptions of the Amazon are meager and fail to paint any kind of picture for the reader, and Ed Stafford himself is really an unpleasant guy.
Most of the book is him whining about one thing or another, belittling the people of Peru and Brazil (who are, according to him, feeble minded, fat, drunk and corrupt), and describing his ineptitude with planning, navigation and a score of other things.
I read a lot of adventure books and I've come to realize that the people that undertake these kinds of tasks tend to make decisions that make baffle me. Stafford seems not to sweat "small things" like money, visas, permits or even carrying enough food. He just forges ahead, backtracking willy nilly to survive and still adhere to his "rules" for his expedition.
He also does crazy things like letting a Peruvian woman who he barely knows and who comes dressed in skinny jeans to join the expedition. She was only there for a few days but other random strangers he lets join for weeks at a time, and then he wonders why they suck at living in the jungle. CRAZY MAN.
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