wilderness survival

The author shares his encounter with a grizzly bear during a canoe trip in the Canadian tundra, exploring his journey surviving the days with his friends tending to his wounds and the resilience to reach the nearest town a thousand miles north of the US-Canadian border.

"Attention! The Beaver Scouts are looking for new recruits. And A.J. and his friends are the first to sign up. They can't wait to build campfires and win cool badges. But scout leader Miss Black would rather prepare them for bear attacks and falling boulders. When they head outdoors, will they be prepared for a real emergency?"--Dust jacket.

Asks the reader to choose the path of the plot in a story in which the narrator and his sister are caught in a terrible thunderstorm on a camping trip to Minnesota's Boundary Waters.

The reader chooses the path of the story about getting caugth in a snow storm while climbing Mount Everest.

Looks at the life of Ada Blackjack, an Inuit women who lived two years on the uninhabited Wrangel Island, north of Siberia.

"Attention! The Beaver Scouts are looking for new recruits. And A.J. and his friends are the first to sign up. They can't wait to build campfires and win cool badges. But scout leader Miss Black would rather prepare them for bear attacks and falling boulders. When they head outdoors, will they be prepared for a real emergency?"--Dust jacket.

The Keys family is vacationing at Shenandoah National Park intending to do some serious hiking, but twelve-year-old Marlon would much rather be on his phone talking with his friends at home in Chicago, and is further annoyed because the girl his own age, Nadia, turns out to be an experienced hiker; but when on the first day his complaining and resistance separates him from his parents his "boring" vacation becomes an exercise in survival as he and Nadia are caught in a storm.

Nita Dara is one of ten eighth graders who has already won a scholarship to attend the Alaska Young Explorers program and learn explorer skills in an Alaskan wilderness camp; but the program is also a competition and the winner will get 5000 dollars--money that Nita's family could really use--but on the final challenge she is paired with the super-competitive Sohail Aman, and the challenge turns deadly when they find themselves lost in the fog while hiking down a glacier, where a single misstep could mean injury and death.

"Tells the story of the author's hunger for remote, wild places, which take her across America and then to Alaska, where she finds her true home in its vast and rugged landscape. She and her husband build a log cabin miles from the nearest road; after tragic loss, Keith and her infant daughter must push on alone in the Alaskan backcountry. Long-distance dog sledding opens a door to a new existence . . . offers the best of all worlds by combining raw wildnerness with solitude and athleticism"--Publisher.