Ed Stafford talks about Walking the Amazon

Ed Stafford talks about new book, Walking the Amazon.

In April 2008, Ed Stafford began his attempt to become the first man ever to walk the entire length of the River Amazon. Nearly two and a half years later, he had crossed the whole of South America to reach the mouth of the colossal river.

With danger a constant companion - outwitting alligators, jaguars, pit vipers and electric eels, not to mention overcoming the hurdles of injuries and relentless tropical storms - Ed's journey demanded extreme physical and mental strength. Often warned by natives that he would die, Ed even found himself pursued by machete-wielding tribesmen and detained for murder.

However, Ed's journey was an adventure with a purpose: to help raise people's awareness of environmental issues. Ed had unprecedented access to indigenous communities and witnessed the devastating effects of deforestation first-hand. His story of disappearing tribes and loss of habitats concerns us all.

Ultimately though, Amazon is an account of a world-first expedition that takes readers on the most daring journey along the world's greatest river and through the most bio-diverse habitat on Earth.

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[jsgsmile]

@martini1900 Your are misinformed. There was a very strict no hunting policy.

[SurvivalGrounds]

cool guy

[LaborHours]

Ed Stafford is the man. He is a triumph of the human race.

[martini1900]

@WilliamTheSilverBack threaten?what are you talking about when have i threaten you and youre family???lol give up for god sake

[WilliamTheSilverBack]

@martini1900 dumbass can't prove me wrong in a small argument by words so you resort to threaten me and my family, and you call me irational ? i though you said what makes human's special and good is caring for others ? you obviously don't :D

[martini1900]

@WilliamTheSilverBack lol yeah becuase youre brain and understanding is evil so any rational thinking you might had have otherwise is all gone..so ofc i cant change your mind or opinion...so my advice to you is take a family tripp down to the jungel somewere in africa and if you meet any cannibals just let them eat you and youre family because hey that is nature : ) gl with youre understanding no point writing or answer you anymore...lol

[WilliamTheSilverBack]

@martini1900 he would do it for wealth not survival...and yes my thinking is anoying because you can't prove me wrong no matter how hard you try.

[martini1900]

@WilliamTheSilverBack and to them its food..but it still doesnt means it is right...so no youre not right in this question just accourding to yourself..but it will never be right..then its right for another man to kill you also if he is brooke he might rob and kill you but hey he do it for survival...yas you see youre thinking is so bad so its enoying...

[martini1900]

also how mutch food have they feed the ape with before they killed her?guess mutch more then they got from the ape..anyway they live in the jungel if they want they should go out and hunt dont kill a mother of a animal that looks like themself and in front of the child..its not right and will never be right to e guess you also think its right for cannibals to eat humans because they need to survive also?its same thing because they dont care about other humans tehy care about thier own.

[martini1900]

@WilliamTheSilverBack lol how old are you?so just because predators hunt and kill its right?it all deends how you see things,you obviuse think its right to kill humans also because that also hapens everyday and war also and we have always kill eachoter ´bla bla bla..but to me its not right if an animal kill another animal its cruel but they must to survive a man doesnt need to kill a monkey to survie in a village in front of the apes kid that food is one meal so no they dont need to do that