Cheating Death

by Larry Kaniut

Book Overview

This is a collection of 18 Alaska survival stories from pilots, hikers, hunters, climbers, boaters, and fishermen who confront their mortality -- and live to tell about it! You will be astonished by the close calls of a young man who clings desperately to life on an iceberg in the lower Susitna River . . . a woman who struggles frantically to escape the cockpit of a small plane as it sinks below the frigid waters of a remote bay in the Southeast...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0945397615
• ISBN13: 9780945397618
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Epicenter Press (WA)
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

18 True Survival Stories

This book is full of excellent stories of survival in the vast and varied wilderness of Alaska. What I enjoyed most about these stories was the sense of ordinary people up against the extraordinary forces of nature and circumstance. There's a personal flavor to some of the chapters. Almost as if you're hearing your neighbor telling a story about his cousin up in Petersburg. Is this the best written book in the world? No, but the true stories are pretty good.