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PREFACE

TEN YEARS AGO, I survived a baffling near-death experience in the Mojave Desert. To help communicate this astounding event, I researched classics of the survival genre. The first of these was Steven Callahan’s masterpiece Adrift, which describes his unplanned crossing of the Atlantic on a lifeboat. Afterwards, I dove into scores of memoirs. But it’s Callahan’s journey and these few simple words from his preface that mean the most to me:

I am less an individual than part of a continuum, joined to all things and driven by them more than I am in control of my own path.

Unlike Callahan, a world-class sailor and adventurer, I was a real estate broker who took solitary hikes in the desert when I closed a big deal.

Let’s face it. When Mr. Rosenthal was lost in the desert, the temperature was 115 degrees in the shade. People die in two hours in heat like that…

Sheriff Jeff Joling San Bernadino County, California