Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon’s Relentless Madre de Dios - Holly Fitzgerald Audiobook

Written by Holly Fitzgerald
Read by Jorjeanna Marie
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date: May 30, 2017
Duration: 09:58:04

The ultimate survival story; a wild ride—the wildest—down a South American river in the thick of the Amazon Basin; a true and thrilling adventure of a young married couple.

Holly FitzGerald and her husband, Fitz—married less than two years—set out on a yearlong honeymoon adventure of a lifetime, backpacking around the world. Five months into the trip their plane crash-lands in Peru at a penal colony walled in by jungle, and their blissfully romantic journey turns into a terrifying nonstop labyrinth of escape and survival.

On a small, soon-ravaged raft that quickly becomes their entire universe through dangerous waters alive with deadly animals and fish, their only choice: to continue on, despite the rush of insects swarming them by day, the sounds of encroaching predators at night. Without food or means of communication, with no one to hear their cries for help or on a search-and-rescue expedition to find them, the author and her husband make their way, fighting to conquer starvation and navigate the brute force of the river, their only hope for survival, in spite of hunger and weakening resolve, to somehow, miraculously hang on and find their way east to a large riverside town, before it is too late. . .

Jorjeana Marie narrates their journey using intonations to identify the few people they encounter. The trip is mostly Holly and Fitz alone, and the narration emphasizes the anguish, frustration, and helplessness they feel throughout their ordeal. Marie’s narration brings all the emotions to bear as the couple struggles together while they are stranded.