Exploring Wilderness: From Heart-Racing Adventure to Tranquility

by John Rust

Overview

"These are adventures that were once common in human history, but not in our time. The author brings a real and useful humility to his encounters with the larger world." --Bill McKibbon

Exploring Wilderness could just save your life. What would you do if a 600-pound grizzly bear approached your campsite during an evening rainstorm in Denali National Park? How would you react if you heard a wolf growling just a few feet away outside your tent at night in Yellowstone National Park? Would you be able to survive alone in remote Alaskan wilderness after your kayak fills with water on a cold rushing river surrounded by hundreds of hungry coastal brown bears? Have you experienced the electric jolt of a charging tiger in the wilds of India and lived to tell the story? Could you find your way back to civilization after losing your map while trekking across a maze of frozen lakes in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wildernes? By reading this book, full of awe and humility for the natural world and its wild inhabitants, you will gain insight into surviving these and other dangerous situations in wilderness.

Includes 16 maps and 5 black-and-white illustrations by Sven Bellanger

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781643437262
Publisher:	Beaver's Pond Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/10/2023
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.11(w) x 9.01(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

John Rust has spent a lifetime exploring and living in earth's wild places, pristine and primeval areas where both predator and prey exist. He has visited Yellowstone and the BWCA a multitude of times and has hiked and paddled the wilds of Alaska, including Denali, Kenai Fjords, Katmai, Admiralty Island, and Wrangell-St. Elias, over twenty-five times.

John has been charged by brown bears in Alaska and Bengal tigers in India. He has been confronted by growling wolves at night in Yellowstone and has spent lazy afternoons hidden in snow while large wolf packs napped nearby. He has kayaked braided glacier rivers with Alaska brown bears on nearby islands, and he has paddled rivers alongside porpoises, freshwater springs with manatees, and estuaries with basking alligators. He has trekked the frozen maze of lakes of the Boundary Waters during winter and hiked the Superior Hiking Trail--all with a keen eye toward observing wildlife and detailing his wild experiences in his journal.

John lives in the Twin Cities and is president of the Minnesota Division of the Izaac Walton League.