The Cave, 9780733340130
Paperback
Trapped, flooded, rescued: A world united to save the Wild Boars.

The Cave

The Inside Story of the Amazing Thai Cave Rescue

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  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    6 December 2018

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Summary

Twelve lost boys, their coach, and the heroes who rescued them.

When the 12 young members of the Wild Boars soccer club walked into a Thai cave with their coach, they expected to be out by nightfall. A birthday cake waited in the fridge for one boy, another boy had a tutoring class. They had rope and torches but no food. Then a sudden monsoonal downpour flooded their route out. They were trapped - imprisoned in a cave said to be haunted by a mythical broken-hearted princess.

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Book Details

ISBN-13:9780733340130
ISBN-10:073334013X
Author:Liam Cochrane
Publisher:ABC Books
Imprint:ABC Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Release Date:6 December 2018
Weight:514g
Dimensions:235mm x 155mm x 26mm
About The Author

Liam Cochrane

Liam Cochrane is the Australian Broadcast Corporation’s Southeast Asia correspondent, based in Bangkok. He spent more than two weeks in Mae Sai covering the cave rescue, one of those weeks stationed outside the cave entrance in the mud with daily contact with divers and other key players. Liam began his career in journalism in Cambodia in 2004, as a reporter, then managing editor of the Phnom Penh Post and has worked in radio and print journalism. Before Bangkok, he was posted to Port Moresby, considered the ABC’s toughest correspondent position. He was the only foreign reporter on Manus Island when Australia’s asylum seeker detention centre was attacked and Reza Barati killed.

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