From the jaws of death
Subtitle: extreme true adventures of man vs. nature
By: edited by Brogan Steele
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780312555665
Subjects: Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks; Anecdotes; Wilderness survival; Adventure and adventurers
Description: Collects true stories of survival from people who have lived despite being lost at sea, stranded in the snow, and attacked by wild animals.
Table of contents: title: Adrift on the Pacific  -- Owen Chase; title: Shipwrecked off the African coast  -- James Riley; title: The boat journey  -- Ernest Shackleton; title: Alone on the Pacific  -- John Caldwell; title: Settling in for survival  -- Maurice Bailey and Maralyn Bailey; title: A family against the ocean  -- Dougal Robertson; title: Surviving the St. Patrick  -- Spike Walker; title: Rescue on Sitka Sound  -- Spike Walker; title: Escape from the top of the world  -- Fridtjof Nansen; title: Adrift on an ice-pan  -- Wilfred Grenfell; title: Look for a corpse  -- Larry Kaniut; title: How it feels to be crushed in an ice crevasse  -- Michelle Hamer; title: Marooned in Florida  -- Pierre Viaud, translated by Robin F.A. Fabel; title: Escape from the Blackfeet  -- Thomas James; title: Snowbound in the Sierra Nevada Mountains  -- Virginia Reed Murphy; title: Trial by balloon  -- Maria Bovsun and Allan Zullo; title: The Sierra survivor  -- Maria Bovsun and Allan Zullo; title: I'm on my way to San José  -- Yossi Ghinsberg; title: The Devil's Thumb  -- Jon Krakauer; title: Nearly too late  -- Larry Kaniut; title: Alone at the summit  -- Stephen Venables; title: Miracle man  -- Larry Kaniut; title: Mistakes can kill -- Larry Kaniut.