I'm Julie Andrews, and it is my great pleasure to bring you Jane Austen Stories,

the new show from the Noiser Podcast Network.

I'll be reading Pride and Prejudice.

We'll walk grand estates and take tea with well-dressed gentlewomen,

but in this tranquil corner of England, not everything is quite as it appears.

Listen to Jane Austen's stories wherever you get your podcasts.

It's just after 8pm on Wednesday, April 9th, 1997.

Darkness is folding over Hinchinbrook Island,

a rugged, rainforested outcrop of the coast of Queensland, Australia.

The wilderness pulses with life.

Frog croaks bounce from tree to tree.

Insects hum incessantly. In the dense undergrowth, something larger, something unseen,

crashes through the foliage.

The last traces of twilight fade behind Mount Bowen,

the island's tallest peak, casting the jungle below into shadow.

And near its summit, there is the sound of human footsteps, stumbling through the dwindling light.

32-year-old Warren MacDonald is searching for a place to answer nature's call.

Growing up spending a lot of time in the bush, the rule is you don't take a leak right into your water supply.

His makeshift camp is pitched beside a narrow stream, and Warren knows better than to risk contamination of his drinking water. But bordered by

impenetrable jungle on one side and a stony creek bed on the other, choices are limited. The only

option is dead ahead, a natural stone wall rising about 14 feet, its top hidden in shadow.

I figured that if I get up and over that, there'll be somewhere up there that I'll be able

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