Jungle Janes
by Peter BURDEN (9781903070055)

At a recent dinner party two bored Army wives challenged their host Major Ken Hames that anything he could train men to do, they could do. He took up the challenge and devised an expedition for 12 middle-aged women - A month long trek through Primary Malaysian jungle. This book looks beyond the battles with scorpions, snakes, spiders, giant hornets and goes further than the harrowing 12 hour treks to question whether the expedition was simply a battle of the sexes, or turned into something far more interesting. Do people benefit from abandoning their daily comfort zones? Do humans grow and develop by going back to the basics of survival in an alien environment? What drives humans - even when contented, to search for self-knowledge, and is removing yourself from social conditioning the best way to grow. For the Janes, the journey was the means, but coming home was not the end. Perhaps for many that was the beginning. We look at the lives of these women before the experience to see why they wanted to go. What they thought they could get. Whether they felt they got what they wanted. Was it worthwhile?

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