Ed Stafford - Naked and Marooned: One Man, One Island, One Epic Survival Story

Stop Living. Start Surviving.

Imagine youre abandoned on a tropical island for sixty days.

No food. No water. No clothes. No knife. Nothing.

Youre completely isolated. Theres a very good chance youll go insane.

Have you got what it takes to survive?

Find out in Naked and Marooned, the gut-wrenchingly honest account of Ed Staffords most extreme, most dangerous challenge yet.

WARNING! This is not your normal 95.

Ed Stafford holds the Guinness World Record for being the first man to walk the Amazon River. This extraordinary achievement was documented in his first book and accompanying TV series, Walking the Amazon. Ed was also named European Adventurer of the Year 2011. He started running expeditions after retiring from the British Army as a captain in 2002 and has led expeditions all over the world. Naked and Marooned is Eds second book.

In all her splendour. Olorua will always be part of my own personal journey.

The fat white giant. Being naked made me feel so much more vulnerable.

Raw snails. To this day the thought makes me gag. Never, ever, ever again.

Feigned happiness. I was actually angry at myself for my pathetic first grass skirt.

My hand-chiselled rock seep with cord wick and plastic reservoir. Water was life itself.

Looking down from the outcrop to my beach and Shipwreck Pool.

Desperation? Eating a raw gecko after squeezing out the poo. Protein was vital.

The rocky outcrop and the reef beyond. Exposed to the entire world I felt so small.

Bush telly. The fire made my cave a home. It was so much more than a cooker.

Orange was Amandas colour. Sunset was our time to connect to each other.

The cave at night. Fire changed everything and gave me warmth and morale.

An excuse to escape my torture? My illness seemed very real at the time.

The beginnings of happiness. Slowing down to enjoy the simplicity of thatching.

My new home. Putting the finishing touches to my shelter, it was time to move out of the cave.

Shelter, food, fire and water, but the face said it all. I was desperately lonely.

The big daddy goat was mine. I estimated it must have weighed forty to fifty kilos.

Making goat jerky with my handmade knife and the Peli-case as a chopping board.

Extraordinary. Quite extraordinary. Goat so tender my toothless grandma could have wolfed it down with her lips.

Evolution from animal to man the use of skins to keep warm and comfortable.

The staple. Crabs, taro corms, taro leaf, and thirty snails. Dinner was one of the best times of the day.

The seedling of sustainable living. This was so much more than a fish, and I knew it.

Escape. Elated and safe once more. Would I do it again?

Would I fuck!

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