Into the Jungle

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I overthink and have trouble sleepin’ / All purpose gone and don’t have a reason / And there’s no doctor to stop this bleedin’ / So I left home and jumped in the deep end,” Ed Sheeran sings in verse one.

The four hour flight over on a bush plane is a roller coaster of a nightmare in itself, but nothing compared to what lurks in the jungle at night.Into the Jungle is a modern classic in the making, as Katherine Rundell creates charming and compelling origin stories for all Kipling's best-loved characters, from Baloo and Shere Khan to Kaa and Bagheera. I liked Ferencik's first book well enough, despite the pathetic, obnoxious narrator and the hokum plot.

After a short discussion – apparently about a bridge the Asmat held against some Dutch explorers – Pep decided to kill Rockefeller in revenge. Wonderful film making with great subjects - The people of the Torricelli Mountains and the environment itself are the stars but the heroes are Jim and Jean Thomas. Ferencik does a beautiful job of describing the lush and terrifying but beautiful jungle and really makes you feel like you’re there with the characters. But even living in the land of Oz, were apparently every creature is set to kill you, I could not envisage surviving long in those conditions – and at my age I prefer my own creature comforts too much to envy Lily her great adventure.The Lily meets Omar, this handsome local wins Lily’s heart and when he is packing up to head deep into the jungle to his remote village Lily decides to go with him. She is often lonely, as Omar and the men must journey further away to hunt and so are absent longer. I loved the way Ferencik built the tension to the action packed finale, where Lily really must prove her worth.