Lost in the Wild: Danger and Survival in the North Woods (edit title)

Vince V edited the quotations of Lost in the Wild: Danger and Survival in the North Woods 8 days ago.

• Added a quotation: “He keeps walking. He pushes through brush and trees. Another wave of panic threatens him, rises inside and crashes along some inner shore, leaving him desolate and mute. And then he sees the opening ahead in the trees... And then he pushes through the trees and sees another bog. Another damn bog? He peers to the west, turns and stares into the gray eastern light. He squints across the bogs surface. If there is a landscape of the soul its lowest point must be a bog. Jason struggles to get a grip on himself.”

Shelfari edited the description of Lost in the Wild: Danger and Survival in the North Woods Sunday, August 2 2009.

• In the wilderness, one false step can make the difference between a delightful respite and a brush with death.   On a beautiful summer afternoon in 1998, Dan Stephens, a 22-year-old canoeist, was leading a trip deep into Ontario’s Quetico Provincial Park. He stepped into a gap among cedar trees to look for the next portage—and did not return. More than four hours later, Dan awakened from a fall with a lump on his head and stumbled deeper into the woods, confused.   Three years later, Jason Rasmussen, a third-year medical student who loved the forest’s solitude, walked alone into the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness on a crisp fall day. After a two-day trek into a remote area of the woods, he stepped away from his campsite and made a series of seemingly trivial mistakes that left him separated from his supplies, wet, and lost, as cold darkness fell.   Enduring days without food or shelter, these men faced the full harsh force of wilderness, the place that they had sought out for tranquil refuge from city life. Lost in the Wild takes readers with them as they enter realms of pain, fear, and courage, as they suffer dizzying confusion and unending frustration, and as they overcome seemingly insurmountable hurdles in a race to survive.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Lost in the Wild: Danger and Survival in the North Woods Saturday, July 25 2009.

• Added a contributor: Cary Griffith: (Primary Author)