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By Mat Luebbers, About.com Guide to Swimming since 1999

The Man Who Swam the Amazon (Book - Compare Prices)

Thursday October 4, 2007
Have you enjoyed following Martin Strel´s Amazon Swim and would like to hear more? You can get the background and the story in the book "The Man Who Swam the Amazon". 3,274 mile Swim on the Amazon river in 66 days, piranha, crocodiles, anaconda, river sharks, blistering and relentless sun, dangerous currents, river pirates and drug runners, and the insidious candirú. A few months old story is drawn from the eloquent and evocative trip diaries of writer Matthew Mohlke, who, armed with buckets of blood to divert piranhas, guided Martin Strel down the world´s deadliest river. The Man Who Swam the Amazon (book - compare prices) is a gripping and inspirational story of perseverance, passion, and endurance what a human can do: a real-life odyssey of a rare and driven man. (Photo Courtesy of Martin Strel's Archive)

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October 16, 2007 at 12:01 am
(1) book sage says:

Blistering heat,vampire bats, wave surges, pirates, anaconda, drug runners, crocs, buckets of blood; live the agony, the beauty & danger stroke for stroke with 52 yr old crazed, plump, booze guzzling strel. exceptional true account in the moment

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