Survivor : True Tales of Danger, Discovery, and Endurance in the Words of Those Who Have Been t...
ISBN: 9781616084554 | 1616084553
Edition: 00Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: FRWHEEL
Pub. Date: 11/17/2011
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In Survivor, Jon E. Lewis brings together the greatest tales of adventure seekers and extreme tourists'¬ ;some who might even seem crazy for their feats. Survivor gets the reader into the mind of the men who have gone further, deeper, higher, and beyond the bounds of normal endurance. The nearly forty stories are organized by terrain: north and south poles, mountains, oceans and rivers, subterranean landscapes, deserts, jungles, and the air. It'¬"s the perfect book for any reader with an insatiable thirst for adventure and exploration.
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| Introduction | p. ix |
| The Poles | p. 1 |
| Sir Douglas Mawson Last Man Walking | p. 3 |
| Richard Evelyn Byrd The Blow | p. 16 |
| Salomon Andree Adrift on the Ice | p. 22 |
| Sir. Ernest Shackleton 88° South | p. 39 |
| Sir John Franklin The March to Fort Enterprise | p. 48 |
| W. Elmer Ekblaw Thin Ice | p. 65 |
| Robert Falcon Scott The End | p. 70 |
| Moun... MORE | p. 33 |
| Walter Bonatti Death Zone | p. 85 |
| Sebastian Snow Cotopaxi | p. 103 |
| Ed Drummond Mirror, Mirror | p. 113 |
| Sir Edmund Hillary The Long Grind | p. 129 |
| Maurice Herzog Extreme Danger | p. 141 |
| A. J. Barrington Dog Days | p. 154 |
| Meriwether Lewis & William Clark Across the Great Divide | p. 168 |
| Sir Laurens Van der Post Deluge | p. 186 |
| Oceans & Rivers | p. 195 |
| Sir Ernest Shackleton The Boat Journey | p. 197 |
| Thor Heyerdahl The Reef | p. 218 |
| Alain Bombard Atlantic Ordeal | p. 231 |
| John Blashford-Snell The Cataracts of the Zaire | p. 241 |
| Sir Ranulph Fiennes Race Against Time | p. 249 |
| Charles Waterton Riding a Guianese Cayman | p. 254 |
| Theodore Roosevelt River of Doubt | p. 259 |
| Steven Callahan Holed | p. 278 |
| John Ridgway & Chay Blyth Storm | p. 289 |
| Under the Ground | p. 297 |
| Norbert Casteret The Abyss | p. 299 |
| Jacques-Yves Cousteau Rapture | p. 335 |
| Deserts | p. 349 |
| Sven Hedin Dying of Thirst | p. 351 |
| Bertram Thomas Crossing the Empty Quarter | p. 364 |
| William John Wills Slow Death at Cooper's Creek | p. 378 |
| Nick Danziger The Crossing | p. 395 |
| Nikolai Nikhailovich Przhevalski The Sands of the Gobi | p. 406 |
| Ernest Giles Escape from the Outback | p. 419 |
| Peter Fleming The Pitiless Sun | p. 426 |
| Antoine de Saint-Exupery Prisoners of the Sand | p. 431 |
| Jungles | p. 443 |
| Henry Savage Landor Amazonia Extremis | p. 445 |
| Colonel Jim Corbett Man-Eater | p. 461 |
| The Air | p. 477 |
| Charles A. Lindbergh The Spirit of St Louis | p. 479 |
| Sources & Acknowledgements | p. 497 |
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Jon E. Lewis is a historian and writer, whose books on history and military history are sold worldwide. Jon holds graduate and postgraduate degrees in history, and his work has appeared in New Statesman, the Independent, Time Out, and the Guardian. He is also editor of SAS: The Elite Special Forces in their Own Words.
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