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Left for dead : how I survived 71 days in the outback / Ricky Megee with Greg McLean.

by Megee, Ricky, 1970-

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Arena, an imprint of Allen & Unwin, 2010, c2008.

613.69092 M496L

Megee, Ricky, 1970-

Missing persons -- Northern Territory -- Personal narratives.

Wilderness survival -- Northern Territory -- Biography.

9781742372778 (pbk.)

xi, 260 p., [8] p. of col. plates : ill. (chiefly col.), map, col. ports ; 20 cm.

First published: 2008.

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. Ricky Megee tells the story of his abduction and survival, vividly and with candor.

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