Wednesday, February 8, 2012

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Sharks, Zombies and Jack Kerouac

ESSAY

What do dreams mean? David S. Wills doesn’t have a clue.

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21 Questions with Les Stroud

A&C INTERVIEWS

Please explain what just happened.

I’ve been trying to figure that one out myself for years…

What is your earliest memory?

Running back from a creek with tadpoles in my hands and getting yelled at. Slapped, too!

If you weren’t an adventure filmmaker/musician, what other profession would you choose?

I would pursue whatever profession would allow me to wander around aimlessly.

Describe a typical workday.

The day begins with emails — lots of emails. Then some time to receive and gestate new ideas. I’ll take some phone calls and quite often I’m off to catch a flight somewhere. I spend a fair amount of time crawling through mud and searching for food and I tend to eat gross slimy things in the course of a workday. I wind down by playing guitar and maybe writing a song. A typical day will end with me sleeping on a rock.

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Man Goes Into Cage

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

While on a cage diving expedition off the California coast, Matthew Baldwin stares into the abyss–and something stares back.

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Through a Frozen Sea

MEMOIR

Slade Ham sets out across open water on an adventure and comes through it better than anyone expected.

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A Tale of Two Sharks

MEMOIR

Ever since childhood, David Wills wanted to see a shark in the wild. In less than a year, he managed to come closer than he ever wanted – twice. From a bus crash in the jungle to paralysis in the ocean, his shark adventures are a tale of stupidity and terror.

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Sharks

ESSAY

Florida, 1975. In need of some money to buy a shiny avocado green electric clothes dryer for her mother, Robin Antalek joins the local bad boys for some midnight shark fishing off the town pier.

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Ghosts

ESSAY

Robin Antalek visits the ghosts real and imagined on a deserted beach she calls childhood. It was the seventies. There were surfers, bonfires, and men dressed in white sheets.

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Swimming with Thresher Sharks Seems Like the Obvious Choice When You Decide to Give Yourself Up to the World

TRAVEL

Sharks with fins shaped like scythes await Smith during a trip to the Philippines.

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