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BLACK AND WHITE EDITION - Not the standard romantic wilderness survival tale, but a very honest, warts and all account of one young man's unique journey, striving to survive for seven years in a very remote rainforest location inside New Zealand's Fiordland National Park, three days walk away from the nearest road end. Away from all the modern conveniences and comforts most take for granted, his tale is one of adversity, building a dream with dogged determination. Battling against considerable and powerful opposition, bureaucracy, severe lack of money, unforgiving nature, loneliness and ultimately his own ill health; only to find the dream fulfilled will almost destroy him. A sometimes spiritual and critical tale of self-discovery where ultimately his growing faith in God literally saves him from a very sorry end in the mountainous wilderness of New Zealand. A story that exposes wilderness living as it truly is, not for the faint hearted. However, Out of the Wild is more than just a candid wilderness survival tale, but includes some very interesting snippets of New Zealand's early pioneer history associated to the Fiordland National Park, the Hollyford Valley, Martins Bay, the beautiful deserted ghost town of Jamestown Bay and even the fabled "lost ruby mine" in the inaccessible Red Hills. For the outdoor and "back to basics" enthusiasts Charlie details his accounts of hunting red deer in the thick Fiordland rainforest around his wilderness home to using the old traditional methods to store his kills, through to trapping introduced predators destroying the special rainforest ecosystems of Fiordland. "Out of the Wild" is a very unique New Zealand wilderness tale.

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Reviewed by Sarah Stuart for Readers' Favorite
Out of the Wild: 7 Years in the New Zealand Wilderness is exactly what the title promises. It is Charlie Paterson's vivid record of his struggle against everything - poverty, bureaucracy, loneliness, and ill-health - that undermined the roots of his dream to survive as our ancestors must have done. The "wilderness" is within the vast Fiordland National Park and his chosen location is very remote. Out of the Wild comprises the history of this amazing part of New Zealand, with illustrations and maps, but most of all it's a unique story of one man's determination to survive and his growing faith in God. Nobody who reads it will be left unmoved, or under any illusion that living without everything we take for granted - supermarkets, freezers, easy communication - is "a walk in the park".
Reading Out of the Wild, I grew to love and hate The Devil's Trail and its surroundings in equal proportions. Anti-blood-sports, I constantly reminded myself that this was hunting for meat to eat as wild fruits are gathered. The sheer beauty of the wilderness, and it is vividly described, took my breath away. Loneliness was a huge problem for the wannabe hermit, but not totally unrelieved; there was Jane! Charlie Paterson's views on women, sex, and morality are intriguing. His advice to his daughter, born in later years, about choosing a husband is rock solid, but he confirms his sense of humour with "it helps if he's rich". Join Charlie Paterson in his wilderness years. Out of the Wild is a book to treasure and reread.

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Out of the Wild: 7 Years in the New Zealand Wilderness by Charlie Paterson tells the story of the author's disillusionment with his work as manager of a salmon farm, and his determination to fulfill and live his dream. That dream was to build a home in a remote rainforest in New Zealand. The book tells the story almost in the form of a journal, detailing the forest and wildlife around him, his ongoing struggles with bureaucracy in building his home, the effects of loneliness despite being surrounded by the beauty of creation, his clear love for the area, and his developing spiritual awareness and relationship with God. The author lived in the rainforest for seven years, and the book details each part of his journey, as well as delving into historical facts not only about the area, but also of previous pioneers to the land who had not fared as well.
As the author, Charlie Paterson, rightly points out at the beginning of his book, this is not a wilderness survival tale. Rather, it catalogues his battles with the authorities, but the story is interspersed with snippets of the way of life, of standing naked on a remote shore to watch spectacular storms, of sitting at a window with priceless views while writing his innermost thoughts, and his love of the bay that captured his heart. His descriptions of the negatives, the sand flies, the incessant rain, the loneliness, and the struggle for mere existence on little income are all an example of the author's determination to make his dream a reality.

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  • PublisherCharlie Paterson
  • Publication date2018
  • ISBN 10 1980245541
  • ISBN 13 9781980245544
  • BindingPaperback
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Number of pages184
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