Imprint: Black Swan
Published: 01/09/2000
ISBN: 9780552145954
Length: 416 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 127mm
Weight: 283g
RRP: £10.99
In 1986 Brian Keenan and John McCarthy were forced to take a journey without maps. For the next four years they were incarcerated in a Lebanese dungeon. From the blank outlook of a tiny cell, with only each other and a few volumes of an ancient American encyclopaedia to sustain them, they could only wander the wide open spaces of their imagination. To displace the ugly confines of their existence, they envisaged walking in the High Andes and across the wastes of Patagonia.
Five years after their return Brian and John chose to travel together again to see how the reality of Chile matched their imagination and to revisit their past experiences. They journeyed by every means available through vast empty deserts, verdant plains and barren tundra. Between Extremes is the story of that journey which once more found them far from home, in an unfamiliar landscape, but which for the first time allowed them to live by their own rules.
Imprint: Black Swan
Published: 01/09/2000
ISBN: 9780552145954
Length: 416 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 127mm
Weight: 283g
RRP: £10.99
'One of the funniest and most moving testaments to friendship that one is likely to read'
'Such an absorbing subject, so deeply and warmly expressed'
'The best travel book I've read so far this year'
'They take us every step of the way with a wonderfully infectious joie de vivre'
'Such a vivid and inspiring odyssey that captivated readers will be spurred into booking flights to Chile...Fun glows from every page even in wretched times'