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    Will to Live: Dispatches from the Edge of Survival
    Will to Live: Dispatches from the Edge of Survival
    Will to Live: Dispatches from the Edge of Survival
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    Will to Live: Dispatches from the Edge of Survival

    By Les Stroud

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    The creator of Survivorman recounts a wide range of wilderness survival stories and shares lessons from them that could save your life.

    In a survival situation, a wrong decision could spell the difference between life and death.

    No one knows this better than Les Stroud, who has survived everywhere from the sun-scorched sands of the Kalahari to the snake-infested jungles of the Amazon. In Will to Live, Les examines many incredible true-life survival stories—explaining what happened and why, and offering valuable perspectives on what went right, what went wrong, and what could have been done differently. The tales in Will to Live include:

    Chris McCandless—the subject of the book and movie Into the Wild.

    Yossi Ghinsberg—who survived alone in the Amazon for twenty-one days.

    Douglas Mawson—the Antarctic “superman” who survived three hellish months at the bottom of the planet.

    Nando Parrado—who was trapped for two months high in the Andes after a plane crash killed his friends and family.

    Plus . . . stories from Les’s own experiences, along with practical sidebars with tips on how to escape quicksand, butcher a moose, cross a snow-covered crevasse, and more.

    Provocative and entertaining, Will to Live is a compilation of history’s most intriguing survival stories from one of the world’s foremost experts.

    “He offers intelligent tips—if you’re traveling somewhere remote, tell people where you’re going, take a well-stocked survival kit, and keep a cool head if you get lost—and he does an excellent job of putting readers into the situations he’s discussing, making us feel the cold or the panic or the sheer desperation.” —Booklist
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateFeb 1, 2011
    ISBN9780062065698
    Will to Live: Dispatches from the Edge of Survival
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    Les Stroud

    Survival expert and filmmaker Les Stroud is the creator/producer/host/director of Survivorman and Les Stroud: Beyond Survival on the Discovery Channel. He has produced, hosted, and appeared in many television specials, including Shark Week, Surviving Alaska, and Off the Grid with Les Stroud.

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      Written by Les Stroud from TV's Survivorman, this is not one of the better survival books I have read. Stroud intersperses stories about his own adventures (which are not live and dead) with other famous stories that are told better elsewhere.

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