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41) How to Survive
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What is the connection between crawling through a jungle and your 'to do' list? What can ejecting out of a stealth bomber teach you about the importance of thinking the worst? What can surviving in extreme situations teach us about surviving everyday life?
John Hudson, Chief Survival Instructor to the British Military, knows what it takes to survive. Combining first-hand experience with twenty years of studying the choices people have made under...
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[2019]
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xi, 201 pages ; 22 cm.
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Ted Alvarez built a career and an outdoor lifestyle by simply not being smart enough to say no to things that will probably kill him, or at least embarrass him severely. From nearly drowning in pro kayak races to hallucinating on solo trips across bear-and-bug-infested wildernesses, his work exists to show that the outsider Everywoman and -man can have the spotlight.
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2002
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271 p. ; 24 cm.
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In this rousing examination of contemporary American male identity, acclaimed author and journalist Elizabeth Gilbert explores the fascinating true story of Eustace Conway. In 1977, at the age of seventeen, Conway left his family's comfortable suburban home to move to the Appalachian Mountains. For more than two decades he has lived there, making fire with sticks, wearing skins from animals he has trapped, and trying to convince Americans to give...
44) Haven: a novel
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2022.
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In this beautiful story of adventure and survival from the New York Times bestselling author of Room, three men vow to leave the world behind them as they set out in a small boat for an island their leader has seen in a dream, with only faith to guide them. In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. Taking two monks--young Trian and old Cormac--he rows down the river Shannon...
45) Into the forest
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Eva, eighteen, and Nell, seventeen, are sisters, adolescents on the threshold of womanhood - and for them anything should be possible. But suddenly their lives are turned upside down, their dreams pushed into the shadows, as sickness and anarchy rage across a country on the brink of collapse. In a time of supsicion and superstition, of anger, hunger, and fear, Eva and Nell are left to forage through the forest, and their past, for the keys to survival....
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Compelling Alaska stories from Seth Kantner, bestselling author of Ordinary Wolves. When Seth Kantner's novel, Ordinary Wolves, was published 10 years ago, it was a literary revelation of sorts. In a raw, stylized voice it told the story of a white boy growing up with homesteading parents in Arctic Alaska and trying to reconcile his largely subsistence and Native-style upbringing with the expectations and realities tied to his race. It hit numerous...
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[2016]
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xiv, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm
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Outdoorswoman, geologist, writer and dancer, McConnell was raised in the urban landscape of Portland, Oregon, but thanks to a mother who ordered her to “go outside and play” year-round and sent her to summer-camp, being outdoors became second nature. As she grew older and spent more time in the outdoors she encountered gender bias and the jeers of men, but persevered and discovered that men are no better (or worse) equipped than women to survive...
49) Ascension
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2023.
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"A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean leads a group of scientists to a series of jaw-dropping revelations that challenge the notion of what it means to be human An enormous snow-covered mountain has appeared in the Pacific Ocean. No one knows when exactly it showed up, precisely how big it might be, or how to explain its existence. When Harold Tunmore, a scientist of mysterious...
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2021.
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Born into the middle of World War II, Gary Paulsen's turbulent childhood provided plenty of subject matter for his bestselling novels, and the librarians in his life gave him the inspiration and support to explore the world through books. As a soldier himself, his storytelling technique developed, and for the first time he shares his own.
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"The world Cal and Frida have always known is gone, and they've left the crumbling city of Los Angeles far behind them. They now live in a shack in the wilderness, working side-by-side to make their days tolerable in the face of hardship and isolation. Mourning a past they can't reclaim, they seek solace in each other. But the tentative existence they've built for themselves is thrown into doubt when Frida finds out she's pregnant. Terrified of the...
56) Getting air
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c2007
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232 p. ; 22 cm.
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After foiling a terrorist hijacking aboard their airplane, fourteen-year-old Jimmy, his younger sister, and two skateboarding friends crash-land the plane and try to survive in a forest wilderness until help arrives.
57) Whiteout
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Survival instincts volume 1
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"Angel Smith is finally ready to leave Antarctica for a second chance at life. But on what was meant to be her last day, the remote research station she's been calling home is attacked. Hunted and scared, she and irritatingly gorgeous glaciologist Ford Cooper barely make it out with their lives...only to realize that in a place this remote, there's nowhere left to run. Isolated with no power, no way to contact the outside world, and a madman on their...
58) Cold Springs
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Shamus, Anthony, and Edgar Award-winning author of The Devil Went Down to Austin (S1017), Rick Riordan is the master of Texas suspense. After his daughter dies from a heroin overdose, Chadwick vows to save other children from the same mistake. But when young Mallory, a friend of the family, heads down the same destructive road, Chadwick is forced to face the past and deal with ugly truths.
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2016.
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184 pages : colour illustrations ; 32 cm
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These real-life stories of extreme survival, include The Man Who Sucked Blood from a Shark, a sailor who survived for 133 days on a raft in the Atlantic when his ship was torpedoed, using shark's blood in place of fresh water. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, a teenager who fell 2 miles from an aeroplane and trekked through the Amazon jungle to safety. The Woman Who Froze to Death - Yet Lived, a woman who was trapped under freezing water for so long...
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Pub. Date
c2012
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xii, 382 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
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A man, an axe, and a dog named Fuzzy... let the adventure begin. Trapped in a job he hated and up to his neck in debt, Grieve's life was going nowhere. When his dream of escaping it all to live in remote Alaska suddenly came true, he was miles from the nearest human being and armed with only the most basic equipment. Grieve began carving a life for himself through fishing, hunting-- and diligently avoiding bears.
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