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Feature: A side of Bear Grylls you've never seen before

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Bear Grylls

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Bear Grylls has done some really hard things; fighting off a boa constrictor in a flooded ravine, drinking liquid from elephant dung in the dry Savannah, climbing Mount Everest.  

But the world-famous adventurer, survival expert, and former British Special Forces soldier says the hardest thing he’s ever done is writing a book about the life of Jesus.

He takes the Bible’s story of Jesus and, without altering the facts, reimagines it as a modern thriller. It’s written in the first person from the perspectives of five people who knew Christ best.

The book is called, The Greatest Story Ever Told: An Eyewitness Account, Bear Grylls