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A friend of mine recommended the book to me. Both of us having been graduates of the USAF survival schools years before, he thought I would get a kick out of it. I did of course, and thought the same as some of the comments above. What a jackass.

I read a story about Penn wanting to make the movie and not being able to get the "rights" from the parents. Took him a couple years or so and the parents finally chose him to do the movie. They "allowed" him to make it with some restrictions and the movie was the result. They left out the parts that ensured the audience would know he was a DS.

U of A has done studies on the berries in the area that his supporters were trying to say killed him and confirmed they were not poisonous. He died in the summer in Alaska after a very short period of time because he had no fringing clue.

But I must say, he had something about him that people took to and made you just love him. That was the interesting part to me, the relationships that he built on the way.