Left for Dead: How I Survived 71 Days in the Outback - Softcover

Megee, Ricky; McLean, Greg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1741755425 ISBN 13: 9781741755428

Publisher: Allen & Unwin, 2009

Synopsis

In April 2006 the news broke of an amazing feat of survival by a white man in one of the most inhospitable areas of Australia. Ricky Megee was found sheltering by a dam on a remote cattle property in the Northern Territory. After being abducted on the Buntine Highway, drugged, then left for dead, Ricky had walked for 10 days in bare feet through unforgiving terrain in blistering heat. Stumbling upon a dam, he set up camp there and survived for almost three months on leeches, grasshoppers, frogs, and plants, losing more than 130 pounds in the process. In Left for Dead, Ricky Megee tells for the first time since his extraordinary rescue the full story of his abduction and survival, vividly and with candor. A gripping tale and a fascinating read, Left for Dead is both shocking and inspiring, the tale of how one man endured a terrible ordeal and lives to tell the tale.

About this title

About the Author:

Ricky Megee lives in Darwin and works in the NT mines. He has written his book with journalist Greg McLean.

Review:

Loaded with brutal honesty" Time Out Dubai Seventy-one days lost in the desert; it sounds like an amazing tale of survival against the odds. And it is." Real Travel This is a detailed page-turner of the will to live that pulls no punches; honest and readable, vicarious and visceral. --Bookseller & Publisher, "the least-PC book you will ever encounter. hard-hitting but inspiring" mostly food

About this edition

• Publisher: Allen & Unwin
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1741755425
• ISBN 13: 9781741755428
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336