What is it like to live off the land? Matt Graham, star of the Discovery Channel’s Dual Survival, takes us inside life as a true modern-day hunter-gatherer, detailing the physical, mental, and emotional joys and struggles.

Matt Graham has eschewed modern conveniences for decades, living in the wilderness, sometimes months at a time with no contact with civilization. He sleeps in remote, primitive shelters free of electricity and plumbing. He forges his own tools, which he uses to hunt animals for sustenance and to make breach cloths and sandals. He is an endurance runner who once set a record on the Pacific Crest Trail—1,700 miles in fifty-eight days—and he nearly won a fifty-five mile horse race on foot.

Matt has dedicated his life to learning what the human body and mind can do when pushed to the brink—and to showing others how placing absolute trust in the land will nurture and reward us in mystical ways. He believes we must close the ever-increasing gap between us and the earth—to build awareness, improve our physicality, develop our senses, and find balance.

Epic Survival is part memoir of Matt’s extreme adventures and incredible spiritual quests and part guide to renewing your own relationship with nature. His story is both inspiration and invigoration, teaching even the most urbane among us breathtaking lessons about answering the call of the wild.