Naked and Marooned, Ed Stafford
Naked and Marooned, Ed Stafford
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Naked and Marooned

Author: Ed Stafford

Narrator: Jonathan Cowley

Unabridged: 9 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/30/2014

Synopsis

Ed Stafford—adventurer extraordinaire and Guinness World Record holder for walking the length of the Amazon River—likes a challenge. Casting about for an adventure that would top the extraordinary feat he recounts in Walking the Amazon, Stafford decides to maroon himself on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific. His mission: to survive for sixty days equipped with nothing—no food, water, or even clothing—except the video cameras he would use to document his time. Detailing Stafford's jaw-dropping sojourn on the island of Olourua, Naked and Marooned is a tale of unparalleled adventure and of one man's will to push himself to the outer limits—and survive.

About Ed Stafford

Ed Stafford is the author of Walking the Amazon and a former European Adventurer of the Year. He was also a finalist for the National Geographic Adventurer of the Year in 2010, and he is a Guinness World Record holder for walking the length of the Amazon River. He started running worldwide expeditions after retiring from the British army as a captain in 2002. When not leading trips, he worked alongside the United Nations in Afghanistan, assisting with the running of their first presidential elections. Prior to this journey, he was in production with the BBC on its conversation series Lost Land of the Jaguar. In August 2010, Ed became the first man to walk the length of the Amazon River, accompanied by forestry worker Gadiel "Cho" Sanchez Rivera, for all but four months of the twenty-eight-month journey. Ed lives in London.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Heather K (dentist in my spare time) on September 04, 2014

I'm a HUGE Ed Stafford fan. I watch very little TV, and one of the only shows that my husband and I watch together is Marooned. Ed Stafford is the king of survival shows, making them educational, interesting, and accessible. He is also just a super likeable guy. I was riveted by the televised versio......more

Goodreads review by Heidi on January 01, 2016

I tried to explain the premise of Naked and Marooned to my husband and his first reaction was, "What is wrong with that guy that he chooses to put himself in that position?" I said that he was probably addicted to thrill seeking, which it seems that he was, but Naked and Marooned is more than just a......more

Goodreads review by Paul on November 10, 2014

This is the self-told story of a man, Ed Stafford, who went to a small island near Fiji so he could spend two months without human contact and the surroundings of modern life. One has to resist the urge to scream “WHY?” not counting his contract and no doubt quite a bit of money from the Discovery Ch......more

Goodreads review by Silviu on July 19, 2022

La fel ca și în cazul lui Dave Metz, extraordinară aventură, însă o lipsă totală de talent creativ în scris. M-am chinuit destul de mult, din nou la fel ca în cazul lui Dave Metz, să termin de citit cartea asta, care nu se apropie, nici pe departe, de cele scrise de aventurieri cu talent și-n ale sc......more

Goodreads review by John on December 20, 2014

As a kid, I loved "Island of the Blue Dolphins." That 1960 work, still on many school reading lists, was based on a true story of a girl inadvertently left behind on an island. "Naked and Marooned: One Man. One Island" rekindled those feelings of escapism and survival lore. I was in the mood for a m......more

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