The Best Survival Stories Ever Told

✍ Scribed by Jon E. Lewis

Publisher: Skyhorse
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Series: Best Stories Ever Told
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

True tales of danger and adventure on land, sea, and air—from the Arctic to the Amazon rain forest.

This collection of classic tales comprises more than thirty accounts of true-life adventure taken from historical memoirs, letters, and journals. They span the modern age of exploration, through the nineteenth century, and to the end of the twentieth. Among the writers included are:

Ernest Shackleton

Douglas Mawson

Salomon Andrée

Sebastian Snow

Ed Drummond

Edmund Hillary

Maurice Herzog

Lewis and Clark

Thor Heyerdahl

Theodore Roosevelt

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Sven Hedin

Norbert Casteret

Jim Corbett

Charles A. Lindbergh

The Best Survival Stories Ever Told recounts stories of ordinary mortals who achieved extraordinary things. Spanning the ice-locked poles and the endless deserts of Arabia to the storm-tossed South Atlantic and sheer peaks of the Himalayas, it charts the dangerous relationship between men and nature.

✦ Subjects

History; Nonfiction; HIS000000

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