Part memoir, part feminist manifesto,AmazonWomanshows what incredible feats we are capable of and will encourage people, especially women, across all backgrounds and ages to find the courage and strength to live the life theyve imagined.

This 148-day journey began on Darcy Gaechters 35th birthday. She sold her successful outdoor adventure business, upsetting her partner and boyfriend of twelve years and getting them both fired in the process. The emotional waters that would fester and erupt on the ensuing journey was often more challenging to navigate than the mighty river itself.With blistering lips and irradiated fingernails, Darcy would tackle raging Class Five whitewater for twenty-five days straight, barely survived a dynamite-filledcanyon being prepared for a new hydroelectric plan. She and her two companions would encounterillegal loggers, narco-traffickers, murderous Shining Path rebels, and ruthless poachers in the black market trade in endangered species. They would plead for mercy at the hands of the murderous Ashaninka people who were convinced that they had come to steal their childrens organs.

In a desperate attempt meant to give her some pretense of control, Darcy even cut off all her hair before entering Perus notoriously dangerous Red Zone in hopes of passing for a boy and being seen as less of a target.At once a heart-pounding adventure and a celebration of pushing personal limits,AmazonWomanspeaks to all of us feeling trapped by our desk-bound, online society. This a story of findingthecourage andstrengthto challenge nature, cultures, social norms,and oneself.