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Survival Training Leads to Book on Wilderness Exploration

How a local professor went from classroom to the dangerous wilds of Alaska.

07/17/2018 | Rating NR

Chicago Tonight

Survival Training Leads to Book on Wilderness Exploration

Clip: 7/17/2018 | 9m 8sVideo has Closed Captions

How a local professor went from classroom to the dangerous wilds of Alaska.

How professor Joe Wilkins went from a University of Illinois at Springfield classroom to exploring the dangerous wilds of the Gates of the Arctic National Park in Alaska.

07/17/2018 | Rating NR

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