Lost in the Wild by Cary J Griffith

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Lost in the Wild by Cary J Griffith

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Lost in the Wild by Cary J Griffith

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 with a lump on his head from a fall 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. 

"With admirable economy and a flair for suspense . . . [Griffith shows] how even well-prepared wilderness travelers can compound an initial blunder until they are in extreme danger--and what someone in their boots can do to increase his odds of surviving."--Washington Post Book World
 
 "Simply good reporting, offering an absorbing read and material for thinking about ourselves and the wilderness."--Minneapolis Star Tribune
 
Cary J. Griffith is a freelance writer who specializes in writing about the outdoors.

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Award-winning author Cary J. Griffith grew up among the woods, fields, and emerald waters of eastern Iowa. His childhood fostered a lifelong love of wild places. He earned a B.A. in English from the University of Iowa and an M.A. in library science from the University of Minnesota.

Griffith's books explore the natural world. In nonfiction, he covers the borderlands between civilization and wild places. In fiction, he focuses on the ways some people use flora and fauna to commit crimes, while others with more reverence and understanding of the natural world leverage their knowledge to bring criminals to justice. In both genres, readers are likely to learn something about our relationship to the natural world and the creatures who inhabit it.

I was 14 the first time I visited the lakes and boreal forests of northeastern Minnesota, says Griffith, and its beauty struck me.

Griffith is also the author of Wolf Kill, Gunflint Burning, Lost in the Wild, and Opening Goliath. He lives with his family in a suburb of Minnesota's Twin Cities.

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ISBN 13 9780873515894
ISBN 10 0873515897
Title Lost in the Wild
Author Cary J Griffith
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.
Year published 2007-04-15
Number of pages 302
Prizes Short-listed for Northeastern Minnesota Book Award (Nonfiction) 2006
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.

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