num_pages: 400
description: Guy Grieve's life was going nowhere - trapped in a job he hated, commuting 2,000 miles a month and up to his neck in debt. But he dreamed of escaping it all to live alone in one of the wildest, most remote places on earth - Alaska.And just when he'd given up hope, the dream came true. Suddenly Guy was thrown into one of the harshest environments in the world, miles from the nearest human being and armed with only the most basic equipment. And he soon found - whether building a log cabin from scratch, hunting, ice fishing or of course dodging bears in the buff - that life in the wilderness was anything but easy...Part Ray Mears, part Bill Bryson, CALL OF THE WILD is the gripping story of how a mild-mannered commuter struggled with the elements - and himself - and eventually learned the ways of the wild.
language: English
title: Call of the Wild: My Escape to Alaska
titlecomplete: Call of the Wild: My Escape to Alaska
genres: Outdoors, Autobiography, Travel, Nonfiction, Survival, Memoir, Adventure, Nature, Biography, American
ratings_count: 1448
places: Alaska
publisher: Hodder & Stoughton