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Nick Middleton, the intrepid Oxford don, explorer and author of Going to Extremes is back, and he's set himself a challenge to cope with the worst that nature can throw at him in Surviving Extremes. Travelling to four of the most extreme natural environments: swamps, deserts, jungles and arctic wastelands, the question is, can he pick up enough tips from the indigenous people to hack it at the very edge of human existence, or will his mid latitude sensibilities forever let him down? This is Nick's account of how he had to put his body and mind to the test in a unique survival experiment. JUNGLE: Nick ventures into the tropical rainforest to the home of the pygmies, where he must kill wild boar to be initiated into the tribe, not to mention the daily trial of escaping gorilla advances... ARCTIC: Nick joins a group of Inuits, hunting for Narwhal, crucial to the group's survival, only armed with harpoons, all on the edge of fragile sea ice... DESERT: Nick joins the annual crossing of the desert by the women of the Teda Tubu tribe to collect dates, including entering a festival along the way in a male beauty contest... SWAMP: Nick travels to one of the least explored places on earth to find the Korowai people, a remote group of tree-house dwellers above the region's floodplain. As well as having to help build a tree house to win the favour of this hostile people, Nick must also join them on their crocodile hunt, whose white meat is highly prized...
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Nick Middleton is a geography lecturer at Oxford University, specialising in deserts, and has written five travel books: The Last Disco in Outer Mongolia, Kalashnikovs and Zombie Cucumbers. Travels as a Brussels Scout. Ice Tea and Elvis, and the bestselling Going to Extremes.
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- PublisherChannel 4 Books
- Publication date1709
- ISBN 10 0752265245
- ISBN 13 9780752265247
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