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Wilderness Survival

FOR

DUMmIES

by John Haslett and

Cameron M. Smith, PhD

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About the Authors

John Haslett is a veteran expedition leader and adventure

writer. He is the author of various adventure books, magazine

articles, and academic papers, and his work has been featured

in National Geographic Adventure , Archaeology , QST , and other

magazines. He has spent decades catching unpleasant tropical

diseases, explaining himself to local authorities, fleeing from

various misguided animals, and putting into practice many of

the tenets of this book.

In the 1990s, with the help of an isolated community of

Ecuadorian mariners, John built four 30,000-pound wooden

rafts and then voyaged on the Pacific Ocean aboard those

primitive vessels for hundreds of days. He and Cameron are

now preparing their most extensive expeditions to date.

John lives in Los Angeles with his wife, film director Annie Biggs.

Cameron M. Smith’s mountaineering, sailing, archaeological,

and icecap expeditions have taken him to Africa, South

America, arctic Alaska, Canada, and Iceland. In 2004, he made

the first solo winter ski crossing of Iceland’s storm-lashed

Vatnajökull icecap, an expedition televised on the National

Geographic Channel . He is currently documenting arctic Alaska

in winter by trekking on, piloting a paraglider over, and scuba

diving beneath the sea ice.

Cameron has written for Scientific American Mind , Hang Gliding

& Paragliding , Archaeology , and Spaceflight magazines and in

the books The Best Travel Writing (2008, 2009) , Science under

Siege , They Lived to Tell the Tale , The Top 10 Myths about

Evolution , and Anthropology For Dummies .

A Life Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a Fellow of the

Explorers Club, and a member of the Society for Human

Performance in Extreme Environments, Cameron is currently

writing a narrative of his Iceland expeditions and preparing for

balloon exploration of the stratosphere as well as another

Pacific expedition with John Haslett. You can track his expedi-

tion at www.cameronmsmith.com .

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