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Extreme Exposure

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This book reads like the best adventure novels do - quick with just the right amount of detail to allow the reader to feel like they are THERE. The author does a wonderful job of filling out the real characters - there are those you truly admire and those you'd like to slam in the head with a liana vine. One must read for naturalists and those who love the outdoors.

Marlo Kirkpatrick takes readers on a journey where most people have never been: into the depths of the Peruvian Amazon. The jungle threatens to swallow protagonist Stephen Kirkpatrick (real-life wildlife photographer) and his crew of three Peruvians and one lost-soul New Englander along for the ride. Little do any of them know that this journey will bring them face-to-face with just about every peril the jungle can throw at them, and face-to-face with themselves. For some of these men, that also means face-to-face with God. Amazingly a true story, this adventure will have you turning the pages as quickly as the men try to outrun the jungle. A great read that makes you feel like you're there, this book offers a great deal of humor, insight and adventure. Strap yourselves in for the ride!

A real page turner! Reads like a fiction/adventure story...only it really happened. MS Kirkpatrick has done an outstanding job of taking me to the Amazon (only I don't have to worry about all the stuff that wants to bite and kill me). Makes a great companion book for "Romancing the Rain," Stephen Kirkpatrick's coffee table photography book.

I am life time resident in Iquitos Peru and I know Bill Lamar, scientist who organise this trip. I read book and can see immediately is write by someone who lack experience here. I show recently it to Lamar, who say he never receive copy from the author! He say nothing but chuckle lot as he look through pages. He just smile and shake head and hand back to me. I well read about this place and have over tirty year experience in the selva here. I know the general public is inocent about the Amazon. Is this reason I feel compell to write and inform the public they should be VERY CAREFUL about what they read about the Amazon!!! This book has lot of hot air! One star only!

I reviewed "Lost in the Amazon," which was released last summer. Now, I find that "Lost in the Amazon" is just a re-titled version of "Extreme Exposure." "Lost in the Amazon" was at best improperly titled since the expedition remains on course for the duration of the trip. It is indeed an adventureless story that the author has attempted to refashion into a life threatening ordeal. In short, the book about Kilpatrick's plodding through the jungle and he's bothered by bugs, the heat and the rain. If that's not bad enough, Kilpatrick is a Christian fundementalist and if I had a choice between enduring his religious diatribes and being bitten by the voracious bugs I'd choose the bugs every time.

I found this book hard to put down. The true story of the photographer's misadventures in the Amazon rain forrest seemed like an Indiana Jones movie. What stuck me most was that the words created such strong mental images; I could feel the (usually unpleasant)envirnoment surrounding the characters. Also, there is one Peruvian "city boy" you really want to strangle; I'm surprised his compainions did not do so. I will never complain about rain and humidity in Mississippi again!

This was one book that I really enjoyed reading. I could not put it down and read it in one night. She really showed the love of the Amazon that Steve has.