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Title: Wild : Stories of Survival From The World's Most Dangerous Places by Clint Willis, Evelyn Waugh, Norman McLean, Redmond O'Havlon, Wilfred Thesinger, Jack London, Norman Maclean, Redmond O'Hanlon, Wilfred, Sir Thesiger, H.M. Tomlinson ISBN: 1-885408-51-X Publisher: Listen & Live Audio Pub. Date: 10 August, 2000 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.86 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Take This One With You On Your Next Adventure
Comment: I really enjoyed this collection of stories that deals with the travails of adventurers in the wild. The stories take place all around the world in some of the most remote, inaccessible, or infrequently traveled places in the on earth.
The travelers in the stories deal with everything from elusive inhabitants of the rain forests of South America to extreme temperatures and lack of water.
This was an exciting book to read. I'd recommend that anyone going on their own adventure into the wilderness bring it along for the car ride or their trip on the airliner.
Rating: 1
Summary: Reader Beware!!
Comment: Don't be fooled by the title of this book: "Stories of Survival from the World's Most Dangerous Places." Several of the stories are taken from fiction books. Another chapter is from Bill Bryson's, "A Walk in the Woods," which most likely has already been read by several million people. Other chapters are from books such as "Famous Ghost Stories" and "The Book of Fantasy." And yet another story is a leisurely, week-long canoe trip through Glen Canyon prior to its flooding--hardy a story of "Survival" or a "Dangerous" place. I could go on, but I'm sure you get my point. If you are looking for a book packed with true stories of survival, this is not the book for you. Shame on Clint Willis for trying to pawn this book off to the adventure readership. Trust me! I won't be fooled again, Clint.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not Wild But Weird
Comment: This is yet another in Clint Willis's ongoing series of adrenaline, adventure, survival, disaster, storm, etc. series in which he seeks to capitalize on the rage for danger and excitement that is currently sweeping the literary market. In my search for material for a class on adventure writing I teach, I have read all of them, and found them a mixed lot with some real gems thrown in. This particular anthology is no exception, though I wish Willis would stop over dramatizing his titles. A more realistic name for the collection might be, "Exciting Moments in the Wilds," or "Wildernesss Moments."
Questionable names aside (giving titles to books is an art after all) this collection has some stand out and downright bizarre pieces that are worth reading. If you're looking for a good old-fashioned adventure story with plenty of excitement, try Dave Robert's "A Wilderness Narrrative," or Joe Kane's "Savages." For more than you ever wanted to know about tropical diseases and the dangers of traveling in the Amazaon jungle, try Redmond O'Hanlon's "In Trouble Again." But if you're looking for something really different, something that will not only entertain but make you question your sense of reality, read Barry Lopez's "Pearyland," in which the main character (a student Lopez met in an airport) steps into another, parallel world, or "The Willows" by Algernon Blackwood. The Willows in particular carries a disturbing undertone of unease and menace. The things that happen in this story shouldn't, and there is no real explanation for them.
Other, less off the wall, though no less entertaining pieces inlcude Edward Abbey's "Down the River" and Evelyn Waugh's "The Man Who Liked Dickens."
All in all, this is a worhty addition to Willis's growing pile of anthologies, thanks to the solid contributions from familiar and well-established names, but when will Willis dare to include the work of lesser known, though no less talented writers?
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Title: Explore: Stories of Survival from Off the Map (Adrenaline Series) by Jennifer Schwamm, Clint Willis ISBN: 1560252782 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Survive: Stories of Castaways and Cannibals by Nate Hardcastle, Clint Willis ISBN: 1560253673 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: 09 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Epic: Stories of Survival from the World's Highest Peaks by Clint Willis ISBN: 1560251549 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Rescue: Stories of Survival from Land and Sea by Dorcas Miller ISBN: 1560252588 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Rough Water: Stories of Survival from the Sea by Clint Willis ISBN: 1560251743 Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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