Rox! That is a tease! :laughing::laughing::laughing:
Did he get eaten or not? I figured Michael Rockefeller was eaten by crabs, sharks or people? Who does the author think ate him?
Later,
Dan
I don't want to ruin the ending but at the end of the book you will feel satisfied that the author reveals accurately what happened to him. My uncle took weather in college as he knew with the war and the US getting in it he would be drafted and he felt taking weather classes he would then get assigned to a "safe" job in the army. Well he was right, the Army came into the classroom and announced, "You are all drafted, the entire class, get your physicals and we are sending you off to the army weather school, I think it was in California. That is literally how it happened, some army person drafted the entire class out of the University of Wisconsin Madison and they all went as a group to army weather school.
However my uncle bet wrong, he did not get that nice safe weather job he was expecting, they put him on a navy ship and sailed him to Paupau New Guinea. A smaller boat took them to shore with their weather equipment and radios and they were instructed where to set up their weather station, in the middle of the jungle surrounded by cannibals, literally cannibals. I think there were 4 guys and they never went off their little camp by themselves as they feared getting hunted and eaten, they always went in twos. God's truth he said he was never so scared in his life. His job was to send off weather balloons on a certain schedule.
This is one reason I bought the book because of the story my uncle told me so I knew it to be true that there were real cannibals there. I bought the book to listen to flying back to see my mother so I bought the audio version although it was pricey, I enjoyed listening to the story. On the airplane I could leave my iPad on my seat and get up to stand for a short time at the back of the plane to stretch and with my bluetooth headphones I could still listen to my story. Wish audio books were not so pricey, I enjoy them so much, I have really gotten into podcasts recently.
For podcasts I have a small 6" bluetooth speaker and I put it under my pillow so that when my head lays on the pillow I can hear the podcast but the sound is quiet enough it doesn't disturb my husband as he usually falls asleep first. It's not comfortable to wear headphones in bed with your headphone covered ears laying on the pillow so the speaker under the pillow works fabulous, no headphones needed.
For podcasts I have been listening to This American Life (of course) and they have like a ten year library of stories if you click on archives, also Best Case Worst Case, Preet Bharara, of course season 1 & 2 of the podcast Serial, and a few others. I have not found a History podcast I have enjoyed although I have tried a few. I listened to Business Wars for a little while and then kind of lost interest. I get tired of listening to to much True Crime type podcasts and there are sure a lot of them out there. I googled top podcasts and tried to go down the list but I guess I am to old, giggling and cursing is just not something i want to listen to for an hour. I really do not listen to any political podcasts as it's to tribal for me. I guess I like more formal and even kind of scripted podcasts, the just winging it for a half an hour gabbing away on the news of the day doesn't do it for me. I would love some good podcast recommendations if anybody has them.
