Survivors
Subtitle: true tales of endurance
By: edited by John B.  Letterman.
Contributors: Letterman, John B.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
Subjects: Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Anecdotes.; Wilderness survival -- Anecdotes.
Genres: Anecdotes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 460-461).
"Published by arrangement with Book Creation, LLC New York, NY"--T.p. verso.
"500 years of the greatest eyewitness accounts"--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: The journey of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca; title: Hans Staden: hostage to cannibals; title: Captive: the affliction & redemption of Mary Rowlandson; title: Marooned: the story of Alexander Selkirk; title: Enslaved: the ordeal of Olaudah Equiano; title: The death raft of the Méduse; title: The wreck of the whale ship Essex; title: Four years in the Arctic: the ordeal of the Ross Expedition; title: Black Elk speaks; title: Mawson's trial; title: Endurance & courage: Shackleton's heroic journey; title: Saint-Exupéry: prisoner of the sands; title: The sinking of the USS Squalus and the underwater rescue of its survivors; title: Escape from Colditz; title: Kazik: The Warsaw Ghetto rebellion & the escape of the remnant; title: Survival in Auschwitz: the drowned and the saved; title: Thesiger in the desert: return to Salala; title: Maurice Herzog's Annapurna; title: K2: the savage mountain; title: John McCain: prisoner of war; title: Explosion on Apollo 13; title: Survive the savage sea; title: Alive: air crash in the Andes.