Stranded

Jeff Probst is the host of the renowned reality TV series Survivor and an American author of middle-grade adventure/survival novels. Probst has been the host of Survivor since its inception in 2000 and has won three Emmys for his work on the show. Survivor was part of a shift in the early 2000s toward reality television and shows that depicted several people engaged in complex challenges for large cash prizes. Survivor was an immediate success and remains popular today. The show features contestants “cast away” in a remote part of the world, where they must outlast one another and be the last person standing in a game of survival.

Because Jeff has always hosted the show, he has traveled to many wild and diverse locations around the globe. He has been part of what makes the show and its challenges so entertaining to watch. Jeff has witnessed people surviving in all sorts of difficult scenarios, so he was the perfect candidate to create an adventure/survival book series. The Stranded series, largely inspired by Survivor, shifts the focus to children in an actual survival situation while featuring much of the same excitement and action as the show. Stranded focuses not only on survival but also on the theme of