Les Stroud is a Canadian musician, filmmaker, and survival expert …
Recommended.
In Will to Live, Les discusses the following stories of survival:
– Yossi Ghinsberg who survived in the Amazon jungle for 21 days
– Nando Parrado who survived 72 days in the Andes after a plane crash
– The Robertson families tale of survival on the open sea
– Chris McCandless whose survival story ends in the Alaskan wilderness with his death
– The Stolpa family whose winter driving trip almost turns deadly
– The Karluk, a 1913 arctic expedition
– Douglas Mawson who survived 3 brutal months in the Antarctic coast
Will to Live: Dispatches from the Edge of Survival Paperback – 2011
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Sounds like it should be a really good book. There’s always a lot to learn from other peoples mishaps.