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Survivors : extraordinary tales from the wild and beyond / David Long ; illustrated by Kerry Hyndman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Faber and Faber, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Description: 184 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780571316014
  • 0571316018
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Introduction -- Juliane Koepcke : the girl who fell from the sky -- Douglas Mawson : the man who came home alone -- Hans Peter Strelczyk and Günter Wetzel : the friends who crossed the border by balloon -- Tami Oldham : the woman who sailed into a hurricane -- Roger Chapman and Roger Mallinson : the men who shared a sandwich on the seabed -- Aron Ralston : the canyoneer who cut off his own arm -- Poon Lim : the man who sucked blood from a shark -- Ernest Shackleton : the commander who saved his crew -- Hugh Glass : the trapper who grappled with a grizzly -- Mauro Prosperi : the desert runner who drank his own wee -- Sue Ruff and Bruce Nelson : the couple who were blasted by a volcano -- Colby Coombs : the mountaineer who overcame an avalanche -- Eric LeMarque : the snowboarder who took a deadly wrong turn -- Craig Hosking : the pilot who crashed inside a volcano -- Anna Bågenholm : the woman who froze to death--yet lived -- Johann Westhauser : the carver who got trapped for a dozen days -- John Capes : the survivor no one believed -- Leonid Rogozov : the doctor who operated on himself -- Rob Tesar : the student who was sucked under by quicksand -- Greg Rasmussen : the conservationist who crashed in the Kalahari -- Brant Webb and Todd Russell : the miners who spent two weeks underground -- Claudio Corti : the climber who was snatched from the wall of death -- Yossi Ghinsberg : the adventurer who went over a waterfall.
Summary: A collection of survival tales includes the story of a teenager who fell two miles from an airplane and trekked through the Amazon jungle to safety and a woman who was trapped under freezing water for so long that her heart stopped.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Dr. James Carlson Library Children's NonFiction 613.69 L848 Checked out 07/11/2024 33111008963262
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 613.69 L848 Available 33111008824001
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A Junior Library Guild Selection "The attractive design features a full-page or double-page-spread color illustration depicting a pivotal moment in each well-told story. ... A great collection of harrowing, true survivor stories."

A collection of survival tales includes the story of a teenager who fell two miles from an airplane and trekked through the Amazon jungle to safety and a woman who was trapped under freezing water for so long that her heart stopped.

Introduction -- Juliane Koepcke : the girl who fell from the sky -- Douglas Mawson : the man who came home alone -- Hans Peter Strelczyk and Günter Wetzel : the friends who crossed the border by balloon -- Tami Oldham : the woman who sailed into a hurricane -- Roger Chapman and Roger Mallinson : the men who shared a sandwich on the seabed -- Aron Ralston : the canyoneer who cut off his own arm -- Poon Lim : the man who sucked blood from a shark -- Ernest Shackleton : the commander who saved his crew -- Hugh Glass : the trapper who grappled with a grizzly -- Mauro Prosperi : the desert runner who drank his own wee -- Sue Ruff and Bruce Nelson : the couple who were blasted by a volcano -- Colby Coombs : the mountaineer who overcame an avalanche -- Eric LeMarque : the snowboarder who took a deadly wrong turn -- Craig Hosking : the pilot who crashed inside a volcano -- Anna Bågenholm : the woman who froze to death--yet lived -- Johann Westhauser : the carver who got trapped for a dozen days -- John Capes : the survivor no one believed -- Leonid Rogozov : the doctor who operated on himself -- Rob Tesar : the student who was sucked under by quicksand -- Greg Rasmussen : the conservationist who crashed in the Kalahari -- Brant Webb and Todd Russell : the miners who spent two weeks underground -- Claudio Corti : the climber who was snatched from the wall of death -- Yossi Ghinsberg : the adventurer who went over a waterfall.

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