A final trip down the Amazon River yields life threatening obstacles and possibility of not getting out alive.
For 25 years France Hunter has been studying owls, and has discovered five new species around the world. Her work has kept her busy and she never had time for a relationship. She travels with Jason "Doc" Bradley, aformer paramedic, and his cousins Tony and Andy Bradley. Now, on her last outing she is joined by a magazine writer, Cathy Birch, and a world famous angler, John Sinclair, who has also dedicated his life to his field.
As the small caravan travels to the Amazon river France falls and severely injures her left arm. Against Doc's recommendation to turn back, she pushes on. This is her last trip and she wants to go to the place where she found her first new owl.
While fishing a blue-ringed owl lands on John's canoe and looks down the river to where France's group is, and then looks back at him. This alerts John. He gets the satellite phone and tries to reach her to no avail. He decides the fishing can wait and, with Mark in another canoe, begin the journey back to France.
At France's camp two jaguars attack one of the boatmen severing his left leg. The other two boatmen, they all have rifles, shoot at the jaguars killing one. The other escapes with the boatman's leg. Doc and the others wake to the noise and he and Tony go to where the boatmen are camping. In the ruckus the canoes become untied and go eastward down the shore and the sat phone is destroyed. Now they have no way to get help and will have to wait for John's team to come back, which could take three or four more days.
Will help get there in enough time?
Professional Reviews
A great adventure story
A charming effective mixture of wild life and adventure that works to tell a page turning story that showcases the authors love for nature, especially owls,
A great tale which reminds me of the underrated 1984 Phillppe Mora movie starring Rutger Hauer, Powers Boothe and Kathleen Turner "A Breed Apart"
If you love adventure, nature and owls, you should check out this book, The Angler and the Owl by Viv Drewa
Action packed, very enjoyable read
What an enjoyable story, traveling with Ornithologist France and her team through the jungle of the Amazon River.
It's not always going as it should, but in the end she finds what she was looking for.
I really loved the book and recommend it to everyone who likes wild life and owls .
This is a rousing adventure with romantic undertones
This book was one riveting Adventure. When France Hunter and her crew head down the Amazon River with a well-known Angler and a magazine Crew looking to do an interview with her is when the adventure really starts. Stranded in the jungle after their canoes float away and their emergency phone is destroyed the crew struggles to survive after an attack by wild animals. Every good story needs to crisis to keep up the momentum and this book does not disappoint! Ms. Drewa has hit a homerun in her first foray in fiction! I give this 5 stars for being the rousing romantic adventure it is.
