True stories of survival
By: Paul Dowswell
Series: Usborne true stories; Usborne true stories
Publisher: EDC Publishing; Usborne Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9781601303998; 9780794536480
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Survival; Juvenile literature; Disasters
Other titles: Usborne
Description: From shark attacks and blazing airships to exploding spacecraft and sinking submarines, these are real stories of people who have stared death in the face and lived to tell the tale. Find out what separates the living from the dead when catastrophe strikes.
Table of contents: title: Dive to disaster; title: Hindenburg's hydrogen inferno; title: Captain Bligh's boatload of trouble; title: Adrift in the desert; title: Shark's breakfast; title: Lucky 13; title: Swallowed by a volcano; title: Terror in the sky; title: Lost in a polar wilderness; title: "The mighty hood".