Mother of God: An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon

John Muir famously wrote, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe,”

There had been years of planning, and now, just as my solo was starting in earnest, the whole narrative changed. Glancing for a minute at the satellite image map, I searched for an alternate path. I mentally recited the mantra that I knew to be true after years of experience—that the plan falling apart is a natural part of any worthwhile adventure.