Hunting Survival

They weren't alone on the ice. For seventy years, Elias has known Lake George like the back of his hand. It's a place of quiet tradition and harsh beauty. For his grandson, Alex, it's a boring winter trip—another day spent disconnected from his world, watching his grandfather fish in the brutal cold of the Adirondacks. But the ice groans with a weight that isn't natural, and the wind carries a sound that no man or animal should make. When a savage blizzard descends, it brings with it a terror that has haunted these woods for generations. An ancient predator, impossibly large and brutally ...

It’s been a week without power. No phones. No computers. Nothing. Whatever shred of humanity is left in people is slowly dwindling away. Gangs are forming, people are starving, and the whole country is in a free-for-all. Accompanied by his neighbor, Nelson, Mike leaves Pittsburgh and heads to his family’s cabin in Ohio. For Mike, the only thing worse than not making it to the cabin is the fear of his family not being there when he does.

Some legends don’t want to stay hidden—and some secrets won’t stay buried. When a Navajo girl vanishes in the high desert of Arizona, Lux Branson is asked to help, even though this time the stakes are deeply personal. Her old friend Jackson believes his girlfriend was taken by a Skinwalker—an evil shapeshifter from Navajo lore. Skeptical but determined, Lux joins the search. The deeper they go into the red rock canyons and sacred lands, the more disturbing the evidence becomes. Something ancient is watching. And it doesn’t want them to leave. With time running out and local ...

438 Days is the miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history - as told to journalist Jonathan Franklin in dozens of exclusive interviews.

In Campfire Stories: Close Calls, Steven Rinella invites seasoned hunters, anglers, adventurers, and outdoor professionals to share their tales of perilous adventures in the natural world, from run-ins with black bears and grizzlies to bad falls and severe hypothermia.

Millions of readers of Hatchet, The River, Brian’s Winter, and Brian’s Return know that Brian Robeson is at home in the Canadian wilderness. He has stood up to the challenge of surviving alone in the woods. He prefers being on his own in the natural world to civilization. When Brian finds a dog one night, a dog that is wounded and whimpering, he senses danger. The dog is badly hurt, and as Brian cares for it, he worries about his Cree friends who live north of his camp. With his new companion at his side, and with a terrible, growing sense of unease, he sets out to learn what happened.

Sam Wade is on a trip to reconnect with his estranged daughter studying in Boston when the interconnected US infrastructure is crippled by an unknown attacker. As the Internet, communication networks, and power grid go down, the world is soon thrown into turmoil and danger. Faced with no other choice than to battle their way home through a country on the verge of collapse, Sam and his daughter will have to face more than a troubled past - the future is deadly.

Early on in his life, Matt craved a return to nature. When he became an adult, he set aside his comfortable urban life and lived entirely off the land. In this riveting narrative that brings together epic adventure and spiritual quest, he shows us what extraordinary things the human body is capable of when pushed to its limits. He learns the secrets of the Tarahumara Indians, which help him run the 1,600-mile Pacific Crest Trail in just 58 days and endure temperature swings of 100 degrees.

He Was the Titans' Worst Nightmare… Until He Vanished. Four years ago, Tyler Raines was a Level 12 Titan Hunter with a kill count that echoed through the ranks. Then, after one failed mission, he disappeared. Now he's back—but not as a hero. Reassigned, disgraced, and surrounded by a squad of misfits, Tyler is expected to die quietly on the Wall. But something is changing. The Titans are evolving. Missions go dark. Breaches multiply. And Tyler’s combat sync rate—once the stuff of legend—is back at anomalous levels. As Sector Twelve falls under siege, Tyler’s past won't stay ...

One month after a crippling attack on the power grid, the country is still in darkness. As a new wave of violence sweeps the nation, the Ford family are soon drawn into a battle for survival with an unknown menace. Tasked with stopping the threat to protect the small town of Whitefish, Montana, Corey soon discovers a traitor is among them. Unsure of who to trust, tempers flare and accusations threaten to tear the remaining survivors apart.

The Obelisk has awakened. Earth is doomed. When Alec West takes a solitary tech job at a mountaintop relay station, he expects static, snow, and silence. Instead, the sky fractures. A hidden construct—ancient, intelligent, and broken—activates around the planet. It calls itself the Obelisk. Its purpose? Unknown. Its power? Absolute. The countdown to full Attunement begins. Alec is one of the first pulled in. No briefing. No explanation. Just glyphs in his vision, hostile anomalies in the woods, and a new interface in his head tracking stats, levels... and damage taken. He barely ...

From the authors of the number-one best-selling The Sea Hunters comes more unforgettable true adventures with famous shipwrecks.

Four survivors. A world that shouldn't exist. A gateway that's closing forever. When a state-of-the-art geothermal rig vanishes from the Alaskan wilderness, its crew, led by field leader Jonah Cross, is plunged into an impossible reality. They haven't just fallen through the earth. They've fallen through time itself, emerging in a lost world where creatures from every era of history are trapped together. Hunted by intelligent, feather-covered raptors and stalked by a monstrous T-Rex, their only hope lies with Anika Bose, a brilliant geologist who discovers their prison is an unstable bubble...

Raymond Ditmars (1876-1942), the first curator of reptiles at New York's famous Bronx Zoo, brought cold-blooded animals to public attention as never before. Through wildly successful books and movies, he inspired a generation of zoologists with his fascination for snakes, insects, and other misunderstood creatures. Ditmars was among the most celebrated naturalists in America. His reptile-collecting trips for the zoo spawned newspaper headlines across the world.

A thrilling adventure set in the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean during the early 20th century. Set against the backdrop of tumultuous seas, Terror at Sea is a harrowing tale of survival and heroism. The story begins with the San Martin, captained by Antonio Perez, journeying from Realejo to Tahiti. Among the five passengers are Mr. McKay, his son Andy, Terence Donaghue, Fanshaw Ellerton, and Quexo, a young ranch worker. The group finds themselves aboard the aging steamer due to Mr. McKay’s injury during a Central American revolution. As the steamer plods along, it falls into a fierce ...

When Nazi forces entered Kraków, Poland in 1939, unexpected and unresisted, Josef Lewkowicz's life became a nightmare overnight as he and his family were rounded up and sent to concentration camps across German-occupied territory. It wasn't long before Josef found himself face-to-face with SS kommandant Amon Goeth, whose brutality was made infamous by the film Schindler's List. As Josef struggled to survive the violence, horror, and degradations of one prison camp after another—he was kept alive only by his faith and his profound sense of justice.

Luke Stephens is a carpenter from Spokane, WA, where he grew up. He has worked hard to grow his business and his family. But after an EMP strike shuts down the nation’s power grid, he must collect his scattered family from the chaos of the city before a wildfire threatens to burn the city to ash. But the EMP and the wildfire are just the tip of the iceberg.

Some legends live in the shadows. Others wait in the snow. When Lux Branson receives a mysterious invitation to investigate strange sightings in the Arctic Circle, she expects another Sasquatch-style hoax. What she finds is far more chilling—a remote outpost cut off by blizzards, a team of researchers too scared to speak, and whispers of towering, white-furred giants stalking the ice. As the temperatures drop and tensions rise, Lux and her team uncover evidence of an ancient race long believed to be extinct… or entirely mythical. But up here, nothing stays buried for long. Trapped in a ...

If you haven't seen a Discovery Channel gold-hunting show, you might picture a gold prospector as a relic of the Wild West: a TNT-toting bearded old man wildly swinging a pick on the hunt for nuggets, guided by old maps, superstition, legends and instinct. It's still predominantly a man's world, and still often fanatical, but these days the golden dream attracts people from all walks of life—and 25-year-old Tyler Mahoney (Australian star of the Discovery Channel's Gold Rush series) is leading the way.

In Campfire Stories: Narrow Escapes & More Close Calls, storytellers take us from Florida to the Northern Rockies to the Arctic Ocean with wild and true stories, a reminder that the natural world is rugged and unpredictable. Including stories from Steven Rinella and Clay Newcomb, and spearfishing champion Kimi Werner, this immersive audio collection also features tales from listeners who survived falling through the ice, gunshot and arrowhead wounds, hand-to-hoof combat with a deer, and a spearfisherman who made the best shot of his life to save a friend from certain death.