A field ecologist. Cape York wilderness. Five dingoes. Two hours from his car. No weapon. He didn't know he was being herded until it was too late.

--The Never Never is an Australian channel built around the stories people bring back from the places most of us never go — accounts passed down, written in, or pulled from the edges of the map where things get harder to explain.

Some are told exactly as they happened. Some have been shaped in the telling, the way all good yarns are around a camp fire and a bush pub.