72 - Five Months in a Leaky Boat, by Ben Kozel, 422 pages, Pan Macmillan, 2003
WHY I PICKED IT: Colin Angus was on this journey
ELAPSED TIME: 3 days.
RATING: Good.
Five Months in a Leaky Boat tells the tale of two Canadians (Colin Angus and Remy Quinter) and two Aussies (Tim Cope and Ben Kozel) and of their journey from the headwaters of the fifth longest river in the world and their journey to the Arctic. Having read Colin Angus' perspective a few years ago, I was delighted to see this in a used book store in Sydney and was not disappointed. These adventurers truly seek to balance an objective (getting to the end of the river) with meeting and engaging with the people they encounter. From Mongolia, through lower Siberia, and up to the Nenets who live with the reindeer in upper Siberia.
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