Author’s Note
INWRITING SURVIVE!, I have tried to pull as much wilderness survival infor
mation from my memory as I can. Given that the past eight years have
seen me survive in some of the most challenging environments on earth,
much is still fresh in my mind.
Before I started producing Survivorman, I figured that my survival
skills, all learned in North America, were pretty well honed. However, sur
viving alone in the jungles, deserts, oceans, and mountains of this planet
have taught me how much I didn’t know. And I’m still learning.
From the herbal remedies of the Waorani to the hunting skills of the
Inuit, there are many wonderful survival skills that exist only within dis
appearing cultures. When I spent time in the Amazon, for example, I was
amazed to learn that there were still 70 confirmed uncontacted tribes living
in its jungles. Call me naive, but I had been convinced that everyone who
could have been discovered had been discovered. Clearly that isn’t so.
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