The year is 1985. Australian ecophilosopher Val Plumwood (1939–2008) sets out in her small canoe on a cruise down the Erre (East Alligator) River in Australia’s Kakadu National Park during the winter monsoon rains. Nothing bad seems to happen that day – after all, Plumwood is not on the river for the first time. However, during the cruise she is unexpectedly attacked by a crocodile…