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Bezig met laden... Lost in the Wild: Danger and Survival in the North Woodsdoor Cary J. Griffith
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HTML: 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 portageâ??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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The choice to use present tense to tell the stories feels forced, and doesn't serve the timeline very well. Speaking of timelines, Griffith begins the book with a prologue describing a harrowing experience shared by both the main characters: crossing a bog. Then he backs up in the chronology of both stories and goes through the preparation for and initial stages of the men's journeys into the wild. He alternates between the two timelines, which is a little disorienting at first. When he finally gets to the bog sequences, he essentially repeats what he's already told us in the prologue - letting the air out of the story just when the tension should be ramping up. (Griffith does a little better in the latter part of the book with the more nuts-and-bolts description of the rescue effort. It's when he's trying to be "writerly" that he goes off the rails.)
There are some peculiar word choices here and there, and some sloppy errors (for example, the outdoor equipment store is sometimes properly called REI, but more often appears in the book as "rei"). These things should have been caught by an editor.
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