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Man Mission
- Four Men, Fifteen Years, One Epic Journey
- Narrated by: Nick Cracknell
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
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Summary
While in college, a group of four young men establish a tradition: every year, they take a week-long adventure trip together. They go hiking, biking, or kayaking, traveling all around the world. They call it their Man Mission, an annual ritual that they keep for 15 years. In the course of their travels, they hitch a ride with drug dealers in New Zealand, down kava shots on Fijian beaches, come face-to-face with a roaring lion in South Africa, luxuriate in a resort intended only for Vietnamese Communist officials, trek to Machu Picchu, and go ice climbing in Iceland. Over the years, they get married, start families, establish careers, and do all the stuff upright men are supposed to do. But when the challenges of real life come into conflict with the perfect lives they are supposed to be living, the yearly Man Mission becomes more than an annual getaway. It's a source of stability and a place to find redemption.
Part travel narrative and part roman à clef, this novel follows four regular guys as they find adventure together, and seek meaning and purpose, in a world where the traditional rules of "being a man" are no longer clear.
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Critic reviews
"5 out of 5 stars" (Foreword Clarion Reviews)
"A fast-moving, fresh, multi-faceted story of exploration" (Louise Herron AM, CEO, Sydney Opera House)
"A candid account of a man's viewpoint-4 out of 4 stars" (Online Book Club)