The Hard Way: Stories of Danger, Survival, and the Soul of Adventure
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The Twenty-Ninth Day
A six-hundred-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a seventeen-year-old’s dream adventure, but after he is mauled by a grizzly bear, it’s all about staying alive.
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Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780525558965.
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A Story of Violent Faith
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