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Not the standard
romantic wilderness survival tale, but an honest, warts and all account
of one young man's unique journey, striving to survive for seven years in
a very remote rainforest location inside New Zealand's Fiordland National
Park, three days walk away from the nearest road end. A true story of
isolation and loneliness, away from all the modern conveniences and
comforts most take for granted, Charlie’s tale is one of adversity,
building a dream with dogged determination. Battling against considerable
and powerful opposition, bureaucracy, severe lack of money, unforgiving
nature, himself and ultimately his own ill health; only to find the dream
fulfilled will almost destroy him.
Out of
the Wild is more than just a candid wilderness survival tale but
includes some very interesting snippets of New Zealand's early pioneer
history associated to the Fiordland National Park, the Hollyford Valley,
Martins Bay, the beautiful deserted ghost town of Jamestown Bay and even
the fabled "lost ruby mine" in the inaccessible Red Hills of
the Southern Alps. For the outdoor and "back to basics"
enthusiasts Charlie details his accounts of hunting red deer in the thick
Fiordland rainforest around his wilderness home to using the old
traditional methods to store his kills, through to trapping introduced
predators destroying the special rainforest ecosystems, to living off the
smell of an oily rag. Out
of the Wild is a unique New Zealand wilderness tale.
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