Left for Dead: How I Survived 71 Days Lost in a Desert Hell by Ricky Megee with Greg McLean

No shoes, no vehicle, no food, no water and no idea. It was harsh, desolate country for a man all alone in bare feet.
Nevertheless, I started to walk. And walk.

In April 2006 news broke of a man's amazing feat of survival in one of the most inhospitable areas of Australia.   Ricky Megee had been found sheltering by a dam on a remote property in the outback 71 days after going missing.

Here, Ricky recounts how, after being abducted on the Buntine Highway then left for dead, he walked barefoot for ten days through unforgiving terrain in blistering heat.

Stumbling upon a dam, he set up camp there and survived for almost three months, feeding on leeches, grasshoppers, frogs and plants -- losing 60 kilograms in the process.

In Left for Dead, Ricky Megee gives a full and frank account of his abduction and survival. Vividly told, this is the gripping and inspiring story of one man enduring a truly terrible ordeal and living to tell the tale.

Genres: Nonfiction - Memoir - Australia