Man Mission

Four Men, Fifteen Years, One Epic Journey

By: Eytan Uliel

Narrated by: Nick Cracknell

Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins

Publisher's 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.

©2019 Eytan Uliel (P)2019 Eytan Uliel

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)

life lesson

The story to me started out to be dull. All saw was one man telling of yearly trips he and his friends took and what they did and went through on these trips. But later see it's not just about the trips but the life lessons he dealt with on the trips as well as in home and work life. I know the name of the three friends but of the fourth, who happens to be the narrator; and I would have liked to known this.

Tequileptik

Amazing book, i really loved how the story develops
and the characters are really well made.
5out of 5