Swimming with crocodiles
Subtitle: a true story of adventure and survival
By: Will Chaffey.
Edition: 1st North American ed.
Publisher: Arcade Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9781559709026
Subjects: Chaffey, Will -- Travel -- Australia -- Prince Regent River Region (W.A.); Chaffey, Will -- Travel -- Australia -- Western Australia; Adventure and adventurers -- Australia -- Prince Regent River Region (W.A.); Wilderness survival -- Australia -- Prince Regent River Region (W.A.); Crocodiles -- Australia -- Prince Regent River Region (W.A.); Americans -- Travel -- Australia -- Western Australia; Prince Regent River (W.A.) -- Description and travel; Prince Regent River Region (W.A.) -- Description and travel; Western Australia -- Description and travel
Description: The story of a young man seeking his own truth and finding adventure in the unforgiving power of nature. Will Chaffey is eighteen when he boards a plane in New York bound for Australia. Taking time off to work and travel, Will meets an enigmatic wanderer and herpetologist. Together they cross the inland desert to the tropical northwest coast, home to the saltwater crocodile, a known man-eater and a predator who has been hunting since the age of the dinosaurs. They devise a plan to explore the remote Prince Regent River, a trek that has never been attempted by outsiders. Passing through harsh, primeval country, shadowed by their own exhaustion, and physically worn down, they find themselves locked in a life-and-death struggle when their food runs out and, unable to leave, they are stalked by a hungry crocodile.--From publisher description.
Notes: First published: Sydney : Pan Macmillan, 2008.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Thirst; title: Departures and arrivals; title: Mitchell Plateau; title: Millaa Millaa; title: Wild Bill; title: Perry Farm and Middlebrook Road; title: By the road; title: The academy; title: Frank and Earl; title: Tanami; title: Getting out of Alice; title: Alice to Melbourne; title: Melbourne; title: Back to Millaa; title: Swahili spoken here; title: West; title: Flood : the flight from Wyndham; title: First steps; title: Landmarks; title: The river; title: The cave in the cliff; title: Oralee Creek; title: Crossing; title: Cascade Creek; title: Taxonomy of crocodiles; title: Waiting; title: The fig tree at the coast; title: Plan B; title: Mount Elizabeth; title: Epilogue: Pilgrim latitudes.