Excellent book that I couldn't put down.
Look in back posts and you'll see that others have felt the same way

Thanks Solus, I will have to read that book.   I love reading books like this. 

Solo, was this really posted on earlier.  I searched the bookshelf before I posted this and didn't see anything.  I didn't search outside the bookshelf though . 

Any any rate it is in the bookshelf now.

For another really hair-raising survival story, actually they didn't survive, try Death in the Barren Lands.  Originally the diary of Edgar Christian, a young man who went to live in the NW Territories with an uncle and another guy to trap for the winter.  His original account is called Unflinching.  They started out on a grand adventure, everything going great, then winter set in, the traps didn't produce and there wasn't any game for meat...they found Edgar's diary in the wood stove where he left it before he passed away, the last of the three to die alone in the wilderness.  It was just a few weeks before spring would have changed the situation for him.