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Dark Waters (the Expedition Trilogy, Book 1) Paperback – 1 Aug 2012

by Jason Lewis (Author)

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He survived a terrifying crocodile attack off Australia's Queensland coast, blood poisoning in the middle of the Pacific, malaria in Indonesia and China, and acute mountain sickness in the Himalayas. He was hit by a car and left for dead with two broken legs in Colorado, and incarcerated for espionage on the Sudan-Egypt border.
The first in a thrilling adventure trilogy, Dark Waters charts one of the longest, most gruelling, yet uplifting and at times irreverently funny journeys in history, circling the world using just the power of the human body, hailed by the London Sunday Times as "The last great first for circumnavigation."
But it was more than just a physical challenge. Prompted by what scientists have dubbed the "perfect storm" as the global population soars to 8.3 billion by 2030, adventurer Jason Lewis used The Expedition to reach out to thousands of schoolchildren, calling attention to our interconnectedness and shared responsibility of an inhabitable Earth for future generations.
Winner of the 2013 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, ERIC HOFFER and NATIONAL EXCELLENCE AWARDS. Also the 2012 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK FESTIVAL AWARD and FOREWORD REVIEWS BOOK of the YEAR.

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Product details

Paperback: 244 pages
Publisher: Billyfish Books LLC (1 August 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9780984915507
ISBN-13: 978-0984915507
ASIN: 0984915508
Product Dimensions: 14 x 1.5 x 21.6 cm
Boxed-product Weight: 381 g
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Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 274,375 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4180 in Travel Writing
- #4360 in Travel Writing Reference
- #5381 in Biographies of Travellers & Explorers

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Susan Reep

Amazing adventure

27 August 2012 - Published on Amazon.com

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What an interesting story - and so well written! It's almost as if this guy pedaled a boat across the Atlantic Ocean by accident which makes him incredibly stupid, lucky, brilliantly talented, ridiculously naive, or a combination of the above. It's like when your friend says, hey, let's go camping and you've never been, have no gear, and are woefully unprepared but you say yes and somehow you figure it out - but this is so much more than camping. Your friend says hey, let's circumnavigate the globe under our own power so you say ok, and you jump into the drink and somehow stay alive and develop the skills you need as you go. I've read many adventure books from shooting the Boh River to Shackleton's Endurance, Roosevelt's trip up the River of Doubt, just about everything in the far north, all the Everest expeditions, Rescue in the Pacific about a Force 12 storm, Adrift - 76 days at sea, but I've never read anything so crazily planned, executed and oddly compelling, told so matter-of-factly with such dry wit. My only critique is that I want more - I wish it was all in one book because now I have to wait for part two and three. I do recommend this book as a not only a good real-life adventure but also as a jump-starter for thinking about our place on the planet and how we structure our lives. The thing about real life, life-on-the-line adventures is that it makes us deal with needs versus wants and our relationships with each other as well as our environments. So like Shrek and Donkey said, there's layers, like onions, or parfaits.

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Ionuț Dobrinescu

Astonishing story, superb literature

23 July 2015 - Published on Amazon.com

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Not only that the story itself is captivating, but the storytelling is a true literary gem. The dialogues are transliterated from different idioms making the book all the more authentic and enjoyable, like a true travelog. I wondered how much editing it took to publish this book, but then I found Jason stating on a BBC interview this:

March 2015: „I got a six-figure offer for a book deal with Harper Collins, but I turned it down because they wanted a ghost writer to write it in eight weeks so the book could be out for Christmas. It didn’t feel right. I went to California, where I had friends, and I had this long difficult period of trying to sort out my next steps. I was the first person to make a human-powered circumnavigation of the world but I had no money to show for it. I had to try to make sense of the 44 notebooks full of scribbling from the expedition. The book writing process was torturous but it allowed me to get over the demons I had when I first finished the trip. Going back into my journals and remembering what I did was what gave me a sense of self-worth. I wrote the trilogy of books myself. I couldn’t just dump it off on a ghost writer.” http://www.bbc.com/travel/bespoke/story/20150326-travel-pioneers/jason-lewis/

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Clair de la Lune

Hard to imagine, great to read

22 December 2013 - Published on Amazon.com

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An unlikely plot hatched in a pub in England comes to a pause in Pueblo, CO, where I live. In fact I searched out this book because a lady working the register in our local Vitamin Cottage had it next to her. Jason Lewis had come through her line, they got to talking, and he told her about his adventure.

Without getting into too much detail, the plot is to circumnavigate the globe under person-power, a feat never before accomplished. The first leg is biking to Spain; the second, pedaling a specially designed and built pedal-boat to the New World; and the third pedaling the bikes across the U.S. As it turns out, biking here is more dangerous than pedaling across the Atlantic, thus putting the expedition on pause.

Just checked, and I see the 2d volume, The Seed Buried Deep, is now available from Amazon. I'm off to order it.

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One of the best books I have ever read!

20 May 2016 - Published on Amazon.com

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One of the best books I have ever read! I wish that Jason was better known - he is a modern day hero! What struck me most is his absolute honesty with himself about his motivations, the expedition, his life. A life well examined for sure! I wish everyone would read The Expedition Trilogy. I have gifted my set already to a friend and can't wait to share with others. Do not hesitate to buy these books! Your life will be changed!

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Steve in Sequim

An excellent read

24 July 2016 - Published on Amazon.com

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This is an absolutely amazing, well-written, story. I bought the set of three Kindle books and read them back-to-back in three days. The full story spans 13 years, and it is interesting to see him mature over that time. It is even more interesting that he chose to expose the less mature bits and both the good and bad aspects of the relationships he had with various traveling companions...including their opinions of him. I admire him for the work he did with school kids, and his current environmental website at [...]

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