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    The Man Who Swam the Amazon: 3,274 Miles on the World's Deadliest River

    By Martin Strel and Matthew Mohlke

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    Martin Strel looks like your typical middle-aged bloke. He likes a laugh, a drink and the sight of a pretty woman. But put him in water and he turns into a swimming machine.In April 2007, after 66 days, he became the first person to swim the Amazon, 3,272 miles from the Peruvian Andes to the Atlantic shores of Brazil. On this extraordinary journey he dodged piranhas, sharks and river pirates, met indigenous tribes who either revered him as a god or chased him with machetes, and swam from dawn to dusk for 60 miles every single day. Like pioneers before him who first climbed Everest or explored the poles, Martin shifted the limits of human capability. His story - of endurance, of determination, of dehydration and exhaustion, of illness and blood pressure that reached heart-attack levels - is an inspiration to people everywhere.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSummersdale Publishers Ltd
    Release dateApr 7, 2008
    ISBN9780857653239
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    The Man Who Swam the Amazon: 3,274 Miles on the World's Deadliest River
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    Martin Strel

    Born in Slovenia, adventurer Martin Strel is the holder of four Guinness World Records in long distance swimming, and was the first to swim from Africa to Europe in 1997, the first to swim the Danube from source to estuary in 2000 and the first to swim the entire Mississippi in 2002. He swims to promote peace, friendship and clean waters.

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    • 3/5
      Trying to swim the Amazon averaging 60+ miles a day this book becomes very repetitive, however a fine achievement
    • 3/5
      Martin Strel, a stoic native Slovene, has the unusual drive to swim the world's major rivers. Averaging 60 miles a day for over 60 days on the Amazon River, he faces the dangers of piranha, crocs, river sharks, currents, and drug runners while suffering from dehydrating and insomnia.
    • 3/5
      The Amazon is the planets mightiest river at 6,437 km long. Only half of this is navigable though, and it is this distance that Martin Strel is intending to swim. He is no stranger to long distance swimming; he holds a number of records and firsts, including being the first to swim from Tunisia to Italy without being killed by sharks.

      This was to be his longest and most challenging swim. The Amazon river contains a number of animals that se the lone swimming human as a source of lunch. As well as the notorious piranha that can strip a body in no time at all, there are anaconda snakes, the native crocs and river sharks. On top of that there is the environment, the sun is fierce, the river is hugely powerful and full of bacteria causing horrendous stomach bugs to Martin and the rest of the support crew. And then there is the monumental effort required to complete a swim of this length; it is exhausting, relentless and the physical strain on his body brings him very close to death.

      But his epic swim brought much needed publicity and attention to the plight of the Amazon rainforest. His arrival at the towns and villages was celebrated frequently, he gained the accolade of The Fish Man from the locals, and his progress was tracked by thousands on the internet.

      It isn’t a bad book overall. Written as a diary, Mohlke has managed to convey the effort required by Strel in undertaking this astonishing challenge, as well as the stresses and strains of the team supporting in his record attempt, as well as giving a flavour of life on the Amazon. The writing is a bit clunky, though that is probably because Mohlke is not an author, but an expedition man. Worth a read though.