num_pages: 336
description: Holly FitzGerald and her husband Fitzmarried less than two yearsset 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 townbefore it is too late.
language: English
title: Ruthless River: Love and Survival by Raft on the Amazon's Relentless Madre de Dios
publisher: Vintage