Before he became this year’s hot cast member on CBS’s hit “Survivor: Tocantins” TV series, Benjamin “Coach” Wade made waves for a different reason: breaking the world one-man kayaking record. Now, his harrowing real-life survival story is being told in this new book from Tom Gauthier. The gripping account of danger, fear and survival is based on the personal journals Wade kept during the 6,000-mile, 6 months-long test of his physical and mental endurance.

A Voyage Beyond Reason takes Ben Wade on a personal search for the meaning of his life that soon turns into a struggle for his very survival. Matching young muscles to an old sea, and a young mind to old sources of A Voyage Beyond Reason by Tom Gauthiermadness, survival will be the least victory he will gain from this quest.

A young man finds his dreams at a dead end, his life going nowhere near where he’d planned it would be by now. Finally, the death of a beloved grandfather spins his world in a tighter and tighter circle, until he is driven to a pinprick of light that he grasps and weaves into a plan for a singular, spectacular, survival driven quest. This quest will become his path to redirecting his life, his values, his spiritual beliefs, and his will to go it alone – if he lives through it.

With the purchase of an eighteen foot kayak, twenty four year old Ben Wade begins to plan for his needs that will sustain him on a voyage of six thousand miles – beginning at the head of the Sea of Cortez, Baja California, and finishing, hopefully finishing, on the shores of Colombia, South America. Naiveté and youthful exuberance rule the effort. Mistakes are made; assumptions are wildly off their marks. But that won’t be known until it is too late.

Ben Wade struggles between a bravado filled defense of his plan, and the nearly unanimous doubt and fear expressed by those he cared for. But there is no turning back for Ben. No one could fully understand the depth of the need that was rooted in his soul. Superficial fear was not enough to deter his single focus on his quest. Further complicating his singular purpose is a beautiful young lady that burst into his life only a few weeks before he waded into the sea – and his destiny.

Six Months after he launched into the Sea of Cortez his hand written, stained and tattered journals are found buried at the head of a steep slope overlooking the Pacific Ocean – in Colombia, South America . . . .

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