Overview
This collection of classic tales comprises over thirty accounts of true-life adventure taken from contemporary memoirs, letters, and journals. They span the years from 1800 to the end of the twentieth century, in a period which can be termed the modern age of exploration. Among the writers are:- Ernest Shackleton
- Douglas Mawson
- Salomon Andrée
- Sebastian Snow
- Ed Drummond
- Edmund Hillary
- Maurice Herzog
- Lewis and Clark
- Thor Heyerdahl
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Jacques 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, the rain forests of the Amazon, and sheer peaks of the Himalayas, it charts the dangerous relationship between men and nature.
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Details
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
11/01/2011
ISBN-10:
1616084553
ISBN-13:
9781616084554
Pages:
512
Publisher:
Skyhorse
