Will to Live: Dispatches from the Edge of Survival (29 page)

BOOK: Will to Live: Dispatches from the Edge of Survival
10.91Mb size Format: txt, pdf, ePub

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
.

Visit www.AuthorTracker.com for exclusive information on your favorite HarperCollins author.

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
.
Copyright © 2011 by Stroud Publishing Inc. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST U.S. EDITION

EPub Edition © 2011 ISBN: 9780062065698

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request.

ISBN 978-0-06-202657-6

11 12 13 14 15
RRD
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

About the Publisher

Australia

HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty. Ltd.

25 Ryde Road (PO Box 321)

Pymble, NSW 2073, Australia

http://www.harpercollinsebooks.com.au

Canada

HarperCollins Canada

2 Bloor Street East - 20th Floor

Toronto, ON, M4W, 1A8, Canada

http://www.harpercollinsebooks.ca

New Zealand

HarperCollinsPublishers (New Zealand) Limited

P.O. Box 1 Auckland,

New Zealand

http://www.harpercollinsebooks.co.nz

United Kingdom

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

77-85 Fulham Palace Road

London, W6 8JB, UK

http://www.harpercollinsebooks.co.uk

United States

HarperCollins Publishers Inc.

10 East 53rd Street

New York, NY 10022

http://www.harpercollinsebooks.com

Other books

Beauty Tempts the Beast by Leslie Dicken
Blackhand by Matt Hiebert
The Staircase Letters by Arthur Motyer
The Dark-Thirty by Patricia McKissack
The Grand Hotel by Gregory Day
Cuts Through Bone by Alaric Hunt
Phoenix Rising by Heather R. Blair
A Calculated Life by Anne Charnock
Island of Saints by Andy Andrews