Extreme Outdoor Adventures - by Larry Mueller & Marguerite Reiss (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Here is a collection of tales from everyday people who faced terrible odds, accidents, extreme weather, wild animals, or severe injury--and survived. Many describe how they entered another state of consciousness, fueled by adrenaline, to get away alive.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Incredible but True Stories of Confronting Death and Emerging VictoriousThe rock climber who cut off his own arm with a penknife. The hiker who fought off a mountain lion. Passengers who survive the crash of a bush plane in Alaska. We read headlines we sometimes find hard to believe, yet there are on record dozens of such events. Here is a collection of tales from everyday people who faced terrible odds, accidents, extreme weather, wild animals, or severe injury, many describing how they entered another state of consciousness - an "adrenaline high" - to get away alive. Forget reality TV - this is real entertainment for the survival-story fanatic.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>If faced with the terrifying realization that you had no choice but to amputate your own leg with a pocketknife in order to survive, would you be able to do it?Extreme Outdoor Adventures explores twenty gripping, true-life stories such as these, of heroic men and women who were forced to muster the psychological and physical strength necessary to cheat death while left helpless in the wilderness in the most extreme of situations. Stories include a deadly hand-to-claw cougar fight, a plane crash in the Alaska wilderness, an alligator trapping episode gone bad, epic battles with hypothermia, a wild boar attack, daring wilderness rescues, and many more terrifying adventure tales.Extreme Outdoor Adventures brings to life the adrenaline-pumping scenarios these survivors endured and reveals how each was victorious in the fight to live.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Larry Mueller has written adventure tales and a wide variety of feature stories for Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, American Hunter, and Sports Afield. He was the Outdoor Life Hunting Dogs Editor for over 24 years and has authored a dozen books, four of which are still in print.Marguerite Reiss' career began with extensive newspaper work, after which she sough adventure in Alaska. She wrote feature stories for two Alaska newspapers, roughed it as a librarian for a time in a small, remote village, and went on to write stories of wilderness survival for Reader's Digest, Outdoor Life, and Guideposts. This is her third book.
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