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Hunted: A True Story of Survival | 
 enlarge | Author: David Fletcher
Publisher: Carroll & Graf Publishers
Category: Book
Buy Used: £11.43
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Rating:  5 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1 Carroll
Pages: 212
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0786709987
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.522097983
EAN: 9780786709984
ASIN: 0786709987
Publication Date: May 10, 2002
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Need something to help you sleep? October 20, 2007
Mr. N. M. Coster (London)
Having read a few books on Grizzly bears I was really looking forward to thumbing through this one.......I needn't have been.
It bored me to tears, he flannels on, for pages on end spouting endless climbing terminology, that nobody outside of the climbing community will understand let alone care about.
If this story did indeed happen, he is a brave guy, but to actually get to the interesting material in this book you'll find yourself skimming page after page of usless, tear enducing cobblers.
I was gutted, I wanted more, but got less.
 what a joke July 26, 2007
Mrs. Leila M. Fearne
this man david fletcher, has no bussiness in any mountains let alone ones in alaska. he makes a joke about what true explores and adventures hold close to them and these are simply the rules of behaviour in the outdoors.
there are so many faults in this book i find it impossible to believe he has spent any serious time in the hills. added to this he has a family, i have spent time in mountains all over the world and i have 2 children, i would not behave as recklessly as this man.
One of the worst books I have ever read. April 7, 2005
N. Cameron
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is the first review I have submitted, I felt I had to, to warn others so here goes: Its terrible a badly written cimbing story with the bear added to dress it up, Its write up and the story line sounded like a great read but I found it so far fetched it was far from enjoyable,even with my basic climbing knowledge I could pick holes right through this story, and it supposed to be true, Could you imagine an experienced climber making camp inside a crevasse on an unstable glacier right after a section of this glacier as the writter puts it "suddenly explodes" just missing him. need I add more, it must be very very roughly based on a true story,
 Great adventure page turner July 19, 2004
Adventurer Lee (Stockport, Cheshire United Kingdom)
4 out of 10 found this review helpful
A really enjoyable book. I like books that simply describe amazing experiences without the waffle, this book does exactly that. Exciting, well written and true. Amazing.
So far fetched it could be a Sly Stallone movie! July 19, 2002
D. E. Waters (UK)
21 out of 26 found this review helpful
Having spent a fair amount of time in Canada and studying grizzly bears I was intrigued by this story. Basically he heads of into Alaska and is stalked by a bear after he accidentally kills a cub. The book reads like a schoolboy's diary (he even takes time out to start mini-avalanches for fun) and doesn't really set the scene at all well. However, my biggest criticism is that the story is so far fetched I found myself laughing rather than being engrossed by the hunt and the chase. He endows this bear with the same sort of tenacity as the robot in Terminator and I was beginning to think that sooner or later it would track him into a smelting plant and would meet its death in molten steel! The 'real' conclusion isn't too far from this - I almost expected the words "I'll be back" to be uttered by the bear as it disappeared below the ice. I was waiting for the final chapter to read like a 'B' movie -'back home in England I was in Sainsburys when my mortal foe appeared from the chiller cabinet - damn the bear must have hidden in that shipment of Alaskan Salmon.......' If you want to read a book about bears buy by Bear Attacks by Stephen Herrero; if you want to read a book about climbing then read Deep Play by Paul Pritchard; but if you want to laugh with incredulity then you can have my copy of this!
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