The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told; Seventeen Incredible Tales

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Format: Trade Book
Pub. Date: 2001-06-01
Publisher(s): Lyons Press
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Summary

Many adventures begin when a storm descends, a boat overturns, a plane crashes, a grizzly attacks out of nowhere, or a wilderness traveller becomes lost. From the tropics to the Arctic Poles, here are 27 epic tales of survival and adventure, both fact and realistic fiction.

Author Biography

Lamar Underwood is a former editor in chief of Sports Afield and Outdoor Life magazines, and is currently editorial director of the Outdoor Magazines Group of Harris Publications in New York

Table of Contents

Introduction ix
Lamar Underwood
Leiningen Versus the Ants
1(19)
Carl Stephenson
To Build a Fire
20(14)
Jack London
Cooper's Creek
34(16)
Alan Moorehead
Walk Well, My Brother
50(11)
Farley Mowat
Three Skeleton Key
61(11)
George G. Toudouze
Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex
72(21)
Owen Chase
The Most Dangerous Game
93(19)
Richard Connell
``Rikki-Tikki-Tavi''
112(14)
Rudyard Kipling
A First-Rate Tragedy
126(28)
Diana Preston
Two Mountain Men
154(13)
George Laycock
Three Days
167(18)
John Haines
The Open Boat
185(22)
Stephen Crane
The Long Walk
207(27)
Slavomir Rawicz
Alive
234(19)
Piers Paul Read
Annapurna
253(20)
Maurice Herzog
The Boat Journey
273(32)
Sir Ernest Shackleton
The Devil's Thumb
305(18)
Jon Krakauer
About The Editor 323

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