The award-winning Survivorman follows outdoor enthusiast and survival expert Les Stroud as he is abandoned for a week in a remote location with no supplies –no food, no fresh water, and no matches. While stranded in the middle of nowhere Les must document his experience with his unique one-person camera rig and 50 pounds of camera equipment. Each new location presents a new set of obstacles for Les with such diverse climates as the Costa Rican rainforest to the Arctic ice floes.

This 2-Disc DVD set includes the following episodes: “Canadian Boreal Episode,” “Arizona Desert,” “Costa Rica,” “Georgian Swamp, “Canadian Arctic,” “Mountain,” “Canyonlands,” “Plane Crash” and “Lost at Sea”.

Les Stroud shows you the basics of wilderness survival in a variety of different situations. While he may not cover every possible scenario (he pretty well sticks to what he encounters), Les shows you at least one way to start a fire in each different habit (i.e. each episode) as well as covering major hazards you would face given the time of year and the location.

If you are an outdoors enthusiast, this will provide a great deal of entertainment. However, a student of wilderness survival will truly appreciate everything the Survivorman does. (Barnes & Noble)

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Imagine being stranded in the most extreme environments on earth for seven days - completely alone with virtually no supplies. How could you possibly survive? With no support crew and operating the camera himself, survival expert Les Stroud tackles that question as he tests himself in the toughest types of wilderness, ranging from the desert to the Arctic. Among his adventures, he battles life-or-death situations - the aftermath of a winter plane crash, abandoned in the mountains, lost at sea and much more.

If you like living on the edge, you can’t afford to miss a minute of these nine extended episodes! He shows us the good, the bad and, sometimes, the ugly. I enjoyed most of the episodes. I like it when he debates the myths - does moss only grow on one side of the tree? Should you eat snow? Without a camera crew, without any way to get access to outside help, he has to last for seven days in the wild.

And most of the time seems to do a great job of it. But other times he will do something completely unplanned and stupid. For example, he was on the shore of Latin America, doing OK, but decided to go inland. He got lost, bitten by every insect alive and ended up following a river back to the sea anyway. Why? (Amazon)