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Forced to not speak a word for 10 days straight, watching a stranger die while ice climbing, pulled off the street to officiate a beauty pageant, hanging from the outside of the TranSiberian Express as it sped across Siberia, and more ... 700 days, 39 countries. Tom Mattson traveled extensively. He was a cowboy in Australia, a fisherman in Alaska, and a monk in India. And that was only the beginning. Over the course of time, he became skilled at negotiating with Indians, able to feel the ecstasy of light passing through his body, and rode more than 7000 miles on his motorcycle, almost killing himself several times. The journey evolved into a quest for how to attain permanent happiness and fulfillment in life. A question he finally learned the answer to ... Through intense hardship and nameless horrors, a state of religious awakening realized. The author was watching "Deadliest Catch" on the Discovery Channel when he heard it advertised as "The world's most dangerous job." Inspired, he set out to do as many of the world's top ten most dangerous jobs as he could. These included deep-sea fishing off the coast of Alaska, working as a jackeroo on a cattle ranch in the Australian Outback, and sifting for blood diamonds in Sierra Leone. This book focuses on events in the most inhospitable corners of the planet. The vivid you-are-there prose transports readers to untamed lands filled with rough-hewn people. A meditation on the will to survive and the conflict with darkness in human's souls, these stories will take you into ravishing landscapes, the wilderness and the wide glittering world.
