Running marathons back-to-back, sleeping by the side of the road,
giving presentations to remote schools that had never been visited
by their own kinsfolk, this is the remarkable story of personal
endurance that gives an engrossing insight into the people and
wildlife of South America. It is the story of two everyday runners,
Katharine and David, who decided to take on a continent and learn
how to run again - barefoot, pushing their bodies and minds to
levels they had never considered possible in a bid to become the
first in the world to run the length of South America, to give a
voice to the wildlife and wildernesses they adore.Running laid them
bare, stripped them of the shell people journey within, so all they
had to rely on was their own bare feet. Yet this very vulnerability
provided the key to unlocking communities who would fling open
their doors, tuck them under their wings and whisper their secrets.
Amazing animals accompanied them: gigantic vaulting stick-insects;
cackling macaws who wheeled and pirouetted in the sky, desperately
trying to gain a better view of them; and a giant anteater whom
they stalked through a snake-infested swamp, so they could stand
within an arm's length as he devoured termites upon the end of his
long sticky tongue. It was also an animal, if one of the most
diminutive, that nearly succeeded in ending their dreams of
conquering the continent - an ant! But when their joints and
muscles were screaming, when they couldn't stand the sight of one
another and when prickly heat, blisters and tropical ulcers
infested their skin, it was the wildlife and wildernesses that
pulled them through. Day after day, for months on end, running from
freezer through desert and into the biggest rainforest on earth,
they survived hurricane-force winds, near 100% humidity, swarms of
biting insects and some of the most crime-ridden places on the
planet. The expedition nearly cost them their marriage, health,
sanity and lives. But somehow, they made it to the other end of the
continent, 6,504 miles and 15 months later, when they splashed into
the warm and much-dreamed of Caribbean Sea.
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