From the jaws of death : extreme true adventures of man vs. nature /
From the jaws of death : extreme true adventures of man vs. nature /
edited by Brogan Steele.
- 1st ed.
- New York : St. Martin's Griffin, 2010.
- vi, 392 p. ; 24 cm.
Adrift on the Pacific / Shipwrecked off the African coast / The boat journey / Alone on the Pacific / Settling in for survival / A family against the ocean / Surviving the St. Patrick / Rescue on Sitka Sound / Escape from the top of the world / Adrift on an ice-pan / Look for a corpse / How it feels to be crushed in an ice crevasse / Marooned in Florida / Escape from the Blackfeet / Snowbound in the Sierra Nevada Mountains / Trial by balloon / The Sierra survivor / I'm on my way to San José / The Devil's Thumb / Nearly too late / Alone at the summit / Miracle man / Mistakes can kill / Owen Chase -- James Riley -- Ernest Shackleton -- John Caldwell -- Maurice Bailey and Maralyn Bailey -- Dougal Robertson -- Spike Walker -- Spike Walker -- Fridtjof Nansen-- Wilfred Grenfell -- Larry Kaniut -- Michelle Hamer -- Pierre Viaud, translated by Robin F.A. Fabel -- Thomas James -- Virginia Reed Murphy -- Maria Bovsun and Allan Zullo -- Maria Bovsun and Allan Zullo -- Yossi Ghinsberg -- Jon Krakauer -- Larry Kaniut -- Stephen Venables -- Larry Kaniut -- Larry Kaniut.
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Adventure and adventurers--Anecdotes.
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.--Anecdotes.
Wilderness survival--Anecdotes.
Adrift on the Pacific / Shipwrecked off the African coast / The boat journey / Alone on the Pacific / Settling in for survival / A family against the ocean / Surviving the St. Patrick / Rescue on Sitka Sound / Escape from the top of the world / Adrift on an ice-pan / Look for a corpse / How it feels to be crushed in an ice crevasse / Marooned in Florida / Escape from the Blackfeet / Snowbound in the Sierra Nevada Mountains / Trial by balloon / The Sierra survivor / I'm on my way to San José / The Devil's Thumb / Nearly too late / Alone at the summit / Miracle man / Mistakes can kill / Owen Chase -- James Riley -- Ernest Shackleton -- John Caldwell -- Maurice Bailey and Maralyn Bailey -- Dougal Robertson -- Spike Walker -- Spike Walker -- Fridtjof Nansen-- Wilfred Grenfell -- Larry Kaniut -- Michelle Hamer -- Pierre Viaud, translated by Robin F.A. Fabel -- Thomas James -- Virginia Reed Murphy -- Maria Bovsun and Allan Zullo -- Maria Bovsun and Allan Zullo -- Yossi Ghinsberg -- Jon Krakauer -- Larry Kaniut -- Stephen Venables -- Larry Kaniut -- Larry Kaniut.
0312555660 9780312555665
2010032544
Adventure and adventurers--Anecdotes.
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.--Anecdotes.
Wilderness survival--Anecdotes.