Will to Live: Dispatches from the Edge of Survival

In Will to Live, Les Stroud, host of ?Survivorman? and Discovery Channel?s ?Les Stroud Beyond Survival,? examines the greatest true stories of endurance and perseverance. By examining real-life survival tales-like the inspiring story of the soccer team stranded in the Andes and immortalized in the bestselling book Alive by Piers Paul Reid-and his own remarkable experiences in the treacherous wild, Stroud demonstrate how seemingly insurmountable obstacles can be overcome by making use of the four critical elements of survival. From Booklist The creator of TV?s Survivorman looks at some real-life survival situations and offers his perspective on them. Some will be familiar to many: the 1972 Andes crash of an airplane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team (chronicled in the book and movie, Alive); Chris McCandless? solo hike into the Alaskan wilderness (subject of the book and movie, Into the Wild). Others less familiar are no less fascinating, such as the plight of the Karluk, a ship that, dur