Tales of Real Adventure
Series: Usborne Reader's Library
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780746023617; 9780746023624
Copyright date: 1996
Subjects: History; True stories
Notes: First published in America August 1996
Printed in Spain
Table of contents: label: Tales of Real Survival
title: Survival essentials
pagenum: 3; title: Dive to disaster. Squalus lies half flooded on the ocean floor, deeper than any submarine ever rescued before.
pagenum: 4; title: Hindenburg's hydrogen hell. A blazing holocaust devours the world's greatest airship.
pagenum: 9; title: "Breadfruit" Bligh's boatload of trouble. Can irascible Captain Bligh survive mutiny, hostile islanders and 41 days in an open boat?
pagenum: 13; title: Susie Rijnhart's Tibetan trek. When her husband disappears, Rijnhart is left alone in bandit-infested mountains.
pagenum: 18; title: Mirage misery for St-Exupéry. Pioneer aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and co-pilot Prévot are lost in the vast Sahara desert.
pagenum: 22; title: Beware the savage beast. When predators decide that humans are prey.
pagenum: 26; title: Space catastrophe for unlucky 13. A violent explosion rocks Apollo 13. Will the crippled spacecraft return safely to Earth?
pagenum: 28; title: Simpson's icy tomb. An injured mountaineer falls into the gaping mouth of a deep crevasse.
pagenum: 33; title: Death or glory for "Last Gladiator". Is stunt man "Evel" Knievel's plan to rocket over the Snake River Canyon suicidal madness?
pagenum: 36; title: Marooned in a polar wilderness. Ernest Shackleton's Trans-Antarctic Expedition are trapped in the wastes of Antarctica.
pagenum: 38; title: Film crew in lava inferno. Three men are stranded in a smoking Hawaiian volcano.
pagenum: 43; title: Plenty of fish in sea, says scientist. Alain Bombard sets out to prove a castaway can survive for weeks on fish and salt water.
pagenum: 46; title: Terror in the skies. Air crew safe in their seats, until fate flung them into the sky!
pagenum: 50; title: Wolff to the rescue. Will fabled eccentric Joseph Wolff survive his encounter with the treacherous Emir of Bukhara?
pagenum: 52; title: Ted cheats death on sinking Hood. An 18-year-old signalman sees the battleship Bismarck sink his ship in three minutes.
pagenum: 56; title: Surviving for yourself. Handy hints for survival scenarios.
pagenum: 60; title: After the ordeal. Fame, best-selling books, political office or prison. What happened to the people in these stories?
pagenum: 62; title: Further reading, acknowledgements and index
pagenum: 64; label: Tales of Real Escape
title: Escapers at work
pagenum: 67; title: Snakes and sharks guard jungle prison. Harrowing tales from the penal colony of French Guiana.
pagenum: 68; title: Churchill's track to fame and freedom. Journalist Winston Churchill's Boer War breakout.
pagenum: 74; title: Alcatraz accordionists break out of the Rock. Did three convicts survive the freezing waters of San Francisco Bay to beat this "escape-proof" prison?
pagenum: 76; title: Ivan Bagerov – Royal Bulgarian Navy. Will David James's Bulgarian disguise fool every soldier and policeman he meets?
pagenum: 82; title: Knitting needle escape for Soviet master spy. George Blake's audacious getaway from Wormwood Scrubs prison in London.
pagenum: 86; title: Plüschow's dockland disguise. Vaseline, boot polish and soot transform debonair Gunter Plüschow.
pagenum: 90; title: Harry Houdini – escaping for a living. Escapologist Harry Houdini claimed that no lock, handcuff or prison in the world could hold him.
pagenum: 94; title: Colditz Castle – escape-proof? The German prisoner of war camp held 800 of the most determined escapers in Europe.
pagenum: 98; title: Harriet "Moses" Tubman leads slaves to freedom. A former slave helps other slaves escape in pre-Civil War America.
pagenum: 104; title: Escape or death for Devigny. Will a pin, razor blade and spoon save André Devigny from a firing squad?
pagenum: 108; title: Breakout at Pretoria Prison. Three men create a key for every door between their cells and the entrance of Pretoria Prison.
pagenum: 110; title: Mountain-top escape for Italian dictator. Commando Otto Skorzeny comes to the rescue of dictator Benito Mussolini.
pagenum: 116; title: Berlin – the prison city. Ingenious, desperate and dangerous escapes from East Berlin.
pagenum: 118; title: Escape films – fact or fantasy? A guide to films based on stories in this book.
pagenum: 124; title: After the escape. Celebrity, wealth, infamy or anonymity. What happened to the people and places in this book?
pagenum: 126; title: Further reading, acknowledgements and index
pagenum: 128; label: Tales of Real Heroism
title: Whose hero?
pagenum: 131; title: Boomtown Bob's global jukebox. Troubled by TV reports of famine in Ethiopia, pop star Bob Geldof inspires millions to help.
pagenum: 132; title: Punching a hole in the sky. Can Chuck Yeager break the sound barrier – or will it break his X-1 rocket into a million pieces?
pagenum: 138; title: Terror stalks Chernobyl. Lethal radiation menaces the terrified technicians of Chernobyl's ill-fated power station.
pagenum: 142; title: Owens' Olympic triumph. American athlete Jesse Owens ridicules Hitler's racist beliefs.
pagenum: 146; title: 12 seconds from death. Plummeting to Earth, Ronnie O'Brien battles to save two fellow parachutists.
pagenum: 149; title: Geronimo's final stand. Geronimo and his band of Apache warriors fight on as the "white-eyes" overwhelm their homeland.
pagenum: 150; title: Brazil's rainforest hero. Chico Mendes struggles to save the Amazon rainforest.
pagenum: 155; title: Animal heroes. Furry and feathery friends save human lives.
pagenum: 158; title: Odette's ordeal. Will housewife turned spy Odette Sansom survive her encounter with the brutal Gestapo?
pagenum: 160; title: Helicopter heroes save forty. They rescued the ship's crew, but can they save themselves?
pagenum: 165; title: Mother Seacole's Balaclava boys. Mary Seacole braves Russian bullets and English prejudice to nurse soldiers during the Crimean War.
pagenum: 166; title: Stauffenberg's Secret Germany. Claus von Stauffenberg commits high treason in the rotten heart of Nazi Germany.
pagenum: 170; title: Blackbeard meets his match. Lieutenant Maynard takes on pirate "Blackbeard" Teach in a no-quarter fight to the death.
pagenum: 175; title: Rubble and strife in battlefield Beirut. Staring annihilation in the face, surgeon Pauline Cutting is besieged in Beirut.
pagenum: 178; title: Stakhanov – Soviet Superstar. Intrepid miner Alexei Stakhanov digs 14 times his coal quota in a single shift... or did he?
pagenum: 183; title: Cosmonaut number one. What hazards await the first man in space? Yuri Gagarin is determined to find out.
pagenum: 184; title: Heroes on film. A guide to films based on characters in this book.
pagenum: 188; title: After the event. Death or glory? What happened to the people in these tales...
pagenum: 190; title: Further reading, acknowledgements and index
pagenum: 192