Victoria resident Colin Angus went on a five-year trip around the world after he bought a sailboat at age 19, then he set off for the Amazon River with two companions in 1999. His memoir of the second adventure with Ben Kozel of Australia and Scott Borthwick, Amazon Extreme: Three Men, A Raft, and the World's Most Dangerous River (Stoddart, 2001), co-written with Ian Mulgrew, recounts their 7,000 kilometre journey on a rubber raft from the Andes to the Atlantic Ocean.