Shooting the Boh Quotes

“Part of the urge to explore is a desire to become lost.”
― Tracy Johnston, Shooting the Boh: A Woman's Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneo

“Dave had warned us that not only do leeches crawl up your boots and find their way into your warm body parts they make flying leaps from trees and hurl themselves off vines and rocks.”
― Tracy Johnston, Shooting the Boh: A Woman's Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneo

“Just before we entered the gorge, we pulled into an eddy to fix an oarlock and I asked Dave Heckman, our leader, what the village headman had said.

"It was a prayer," he answered casually.

"I heard Pelanjau translate it into Indonesian for you."

"Well...yeah."

"So?"

Dave cleared his throat. "Well... actually... he asked God to accept the souls in heaven of the misguided white people who were going to die in the gorge. Amen.”
― Tracy Johnston, Shooting the Boh: A Woman's Voyage Down the Wildest River in Borneo