Read Will to Live: Dispatches from the Edge of Survival Online
Authors: 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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This book has been carefully researched, and all efforts have been made to ensure its accuracy. However, readers use at their own risk any of the information and advice the book offers, and they should carefully study and clearly understand the material before any such use. The authors and publisher assume no responsibility for any injury or loss suffered in connection with use of the book.
All photographs, including cover, by Laura Bombier except the following: p. 7 © Wolfgang Shuler; p. 43 © Bettmann/Corbis; p. 71 by Les Stroud; p. 79 courtesy of Douglas Robertson; p.117 © Phil Schofield; p. 141 © Time & Life Pictures. Getty Images; p. 169 courtesy of Dartmouth College Library; p. 197 Photograph by Frank Hurley/National Library of Australia NLA. PIC-AN10932811-47-V; photo section, pp. 2–3 (plane crash) and p. 10 (rubber rafts).
The Sea Survival Kit list that appears on pages 85–86 is adapted, by permission, from F. Golden and M. Tipton, 2002,
Essentials of Sea Survival
(Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics)
WILL TO LIVE
.
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FIRST U.S. EDITION
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