River Monsters by Jeremy Wade

Author:Jeremy Wade [Wade, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780857820020
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
Published: 2012-09-28T17:02:20+00:00

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THE WISH YOU WERE DEAD FISH

The tail is whipped forwards in a curve with the sting pointing to the area of body contact. The sting easily penetrates rubber boots and is powerful enough to be driven into wood.

Michael Goulding, Amazon: The Flooded Forest, 1989

The date is August 1993, and we are at Lago Grande again, the remote lake near José’s hut in the floodplain of the Rio Purus. I’ve beached my wooden canoe on the central island, in one of the few places where getting out on the shore is possible; everywhere else is either knee-deep mud or jungle right down to the water. But my relief at being able to get the circulation back into my buttocks is short lived. Although this is the dry season, with the water level near the bottom of its annual forty- to fifty-foot flood cycle, a storm has swept in and is blasting the lake’s surface.

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