Triumph over odds
Subtitle: an anthology of man's unconquerable spirit, edited with a foreword and introductory notes
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Duell, Sloan and Pearce
Published: 1957
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 487
Subjects: Literature; Collections
Table of contents: title: pt. 1.; title: Man against the outer world:; title: David and Goliath (the Old Testament) --; title: March of the ten thousand (Xenophon) --; title: In the pass at Thermopylae (Herodotus) --; title: Hannibal crosses the Alps (Livy) --; title: The Battle of Hastings, A.D. 1066 (Sir Charles Oman) --; title: Cabeza de Vaca (Haniel Long) --; title: Father Jogues (Francis Parkman) --; title: The death of La Salle (Francis Parkman) --; title: Daniel Boone, prisoner of the Shawnee king (John Bakeless) --; title: Lord Nelson at Trafalgar Square (Robert Southey) --; title: Trial by wilderness (George Washington) --; title: The march on Vincennes: George Rogers Clark (Walter Havighurst) --; title: John Colter escapes from the Indians (Burton Harris) --; title: The descent of the Colorado: Major Powell (Wallace Stegner) --; title: Death in the Antarctic (Robert Falcon Scott) --; title: Storm off Cape Horn (Joshua Slocum) --; title: Back from the border of death (Charles A. Lindbergh) --; title: The enemy sleep  (Charles A. Lindbergh) --; title: Woman alone (Laurens van der Post) --; title: Crash over the Andes (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) --; title: Dunkirk (Arthur D. Divine) --; title: Bataan (Sidney Stewart) --; title: The ascent of Annapurna (Maurice Herzog) --; title: Death by avalanche (Elliott Arnold) --; title: In the bowels of the earth: the speleologists (John Stewart Collis) -- -- pt. 2.; title: Man against the inner world:; title: The trials of Job (the Old Testament) --; title: The trial and death of Socrates (Plato) --; title: The trial and crucifixion of Jesus ((the New Testament) --; title: The youth of St. Augustine (St. Augustine) --; title: The trial of Joan of Arc (official transcript) --; title: Beethoven in deafness (J.W.N. Sullivan) --; title: The sacrifice of Charles Lamb (John Mason Brown) --; title: The last years of Charles Dickens (Edgar Johnson) --; title: Ordeals of Francis Parkman (Van Wyck Brooks) --; title: Ordeals of Vincent Van Gogh (J. Van Gogh-Bonger) --; title: Ordeal in Arabia (T.E. Lawrence) --; title: Alone (Rear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd) --; title: Sentence of death (Hans Zinsser) --; title: The four chaplains (Rev. Francis B. Thornton) --; title: The man who lived twice: Edward Shelton (Anne Morrow Lindbergh) --; title: A season in hell (Van Wyck Brooks) --; title: The diary of a young girl (Anne Frank) --; title: The woman who could not die (Iulia de Beausobre) --; title: A now to live again (Betsey Barton) --; title: Death be not proud (John Gunther) --; title: Undying spirit: Eliena Krylenko (The Vineyard Gazette).