Olejar Books

From a friendship born out of adversity comes an extraordinary story
by two extraordinary men. For four years, Brian Keenan and John McCarthy were incarcerated in a Lebanese dungeon. From the blank outlook of a tiny cell, with just each other and a few volumes of an
ancient American encyclopaedia to sustain them, they could only wander the wide open spaces of their imagination. To displace the ugly confines of their existence, they envisaged walking in the High Andes
and across the wastes of Patagonia.
Five years after their release, Brian and John chose to travel together again to see how the reality of Chile matched their imagination and to revisit their past experiences. Between Extremes is the story of
that journey, which once more found them far from home, in an unfamiliar landscape, but which for the first time allowed them
to live by their own rules.