True Underground Rescue Stories

✍ Scribed by Jeff C. Young

Publisher: Enslow Publishers
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 40
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

A baby trapped in a well, a man looking for caves in Kentucky, coal miners and gold miners put in deadly predicaments, and a man rescuing another from an oncoming subway train. What do these stories have in common? They are all dramatic accounts of rescue missions that took place below the surface of the earth. These true stories will excite the reader while teaching what it means to sacrifice for others for the betterment of all.

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