His vivid descriptions of trips into the hinterland to gather material for his articles -- whether he's being instructed to sleep with a pistol under his pillow in case a bear decides to amble into camp for a midnight visit…or having a bush pilot who's determined to land on a rocky beach no matter how many tries it might take -- all make for vicarious reading. Those chapters alone make this book an entertaining read, but he saves the most compelling stuff for his later chapters when he details, with a squirm-inducing first-person POV, his brushes with mortality sparked first by cardiomyopathy and later by the full-blown terror of stroke.. - Amazon Reviewer
