Man against nature
Subtitle: tales of adventure and exploration
Edition: [1st ed.].
Publisher: Harper
Published: 1954
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 483
Subjects: Adventure and adventurers
Table of contents: title: Adventure: Unending challenge / Maurice Herzog; title: Introduction / Charles Neider; title: Earthquake at San Francisco / Frank W. Aitken and Edward Hilton; title: Strange death of Louis Slotin / Stewart Aslop and Ralph E. Lapp; title: Voyage to the South Pole / Roald Amundsen; title: Just vengeance of heaven / Anonymous; title: Forty-five seconds inside a tornado / Ira J. Baden, as told to Robert H. Parham; title: Descent into perpetual night / William Beebe; title: Plague / Giovanni Boccaccio; title: Head hunters of New Guinea / Sidney Spencer Broomfield; title: Alone / Richard E. Byrd; title: Lost in the Sahara / Donald R.G. Cameron; title: Great Lisbon earthquake / Samuel Chase; title: Champawat man-eater / Jim Corbett; title: Silent world / J.Y. Cousteau, with Frederic Dumas; title: Indians! / George A. Custer; title: Rounding the horn / Richard Henry Dana; title: Battle with a whale / William M. Davies; title: On the bottom / Edward Ellsberg; title: Lost in the Canadian wilderness / John Grant; title: Great Chicago fire / Samuel S. Greeley; title: Bailing out at supersonic speed / Arthur Ray Hawkins, as told to Wesley Price; title: Death in the afternoon / Ernest Hemingway; title: Bridging the Hellespont / Herodotus; title: Kon-Tiki / Thor Heyerdahl; title: To the summit of Everest / Sir Edmund Hillary; title: Man against Bronco / Emerson Hough; title: Tidal wave / Louis V. Housel; title: Hunting the African buffalo / J.A. Hunter; title: Masai Spearmen / J.A. Hunter; title: We jump into fire / Starr Jenkins; title: Rocket shoot at white sands / Jonathan Norton Leonard; title: New York to Paris / Charles A. Lindbergh; title: Attempts on the Eigerwand C.F. Meade; title: Buffalo chase / Francis Parkman; title: North Pole conquered / Robert E. Peary; title: Eruption of Vesuvius / Pliny the Younger; title: On the edge of the primeval forest / Albert Schweitzer; title: Last March / Robert Falcon Scott; title: Open boat / Sir Ernest Shackleton; title: Craters of fire Haroum Tazieff; title: Johnstown flood / Peter J. Toner; title: Ten thousand miles in the saddle / A.F. Tschiffely; title: Buzzing death / Tursa; title: Annapurna / James Ramsey Ullman; title: Waterspout in the Pacific / James J. Wait; title: Success at Kitty Hawk / Orville Wright.