The greatest survival stories ever told
By: edited and with an introduction by Lamar Underwood.
Contributors: Underwood, Lamar.
Edition: printing (1)
Publisher: Lyons Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Guilford, Conn
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781585742387
Copyright date: 2001
Subjects: Wilderness survival.; Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.
Table of contents: title: Leiningen versus the ants / Carl Stephenson; title: To build a fire / Jack London; title: Cooper's Creek / Alan Moorehead; title: Walk well, my brother / Farley Mowat; title: Three Skeleton Key / George G. Toudouze; title: Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex / Owen Chase; title: The most dangerous game / Richard Connell; title: "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" / Rudyard Kipling; title: A first-rate tragedy / Diana Preston; title: Two mountain men / George Laycock; title: Three days / John Haines; title: The open boat / Stephen Crane; title: The long walk / Slavomir Rawicz; title: Alive / Piers Paul Read; title: Annapurna / Maurice Herzog; title: The boat journey / Sir Ernest Shackleton; title: The Devil's Thumb / Jon Krakauer.