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Author : Collins Collins Maps
Publisher : Collins
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Accident victims
ISBN : 0008347832
The story of 60 of the most astonishing stories of human endurance and endeavour.
Author : Bear Grills
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Accident victims
ISBN : 0007577974
The story of 60 of the most astonishing stories of human endurance and endeavour. Now available as a small paperback the short stories make it perfect for the work commute or summer holiday.
Author : Bear Grylls
Publisher : Collins
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : Accident victims
ISBN : 0007482779
Tales of sixty of the most daring escapes, famous shipwrecks, and ultimate survivals. The statistics, descriptions, archive photographs and illustrative maps will give the reader a full understanding of how Joe Simpson crawled to safety in the South American Andean mountains, how Anthony Farrah-Hockley evaded capture after the Battle of Imjin River in the Korean War and how Shackelton's men survived the incredible journey by boat to South Georgia. Sixty of the World's greatest survival stories. Here is a selection of them: The Miracle of Stairway B, and how 16 people managed to escape death in the Twin Towers on 9/11. The infamous story of the Montevideo rugby union team's plane crash in the Andes, and their subsequent admission of cannibalism -- 2012 is the 40th anniversary of the crash. Mary Queen of Scots and her escape from a remote Scottish castle. Three men pull off what is possibly the only successful escape from Alcatraz. The story of Dith Pran, the Cambodian journalist who escaped the genocide of Pol Pot. How the German soldier Cornelius Rost escaped from a labour camp in Siberia and trekked for 3 years to Iran. The story of 18 year old William Shotton and how he navigated his ship after most of the crew perished from a mystery disease in 1893. Hostage Situations The dramatic rescue of Íngrid Betancourt by Colombian security forces after six years as a hostage.
Author : Collins Maps
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780007450299
Extreme Survivors tells the illustrated story of 60 of the most daring escapes, famous shipwrecks, and ultimate survival stories. These are astonishing stories of human endurance and endeavour.
Author : Bear Grylls,Times Books Staff
Publisher : Collins
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Survival
ISBN : 0007368453
Tales of sixty of the most daring escapes, famous shipwrecks, and ultimate survival stories. The statistics, descriptions, archive photographs and illustrative maps will give the reader a full understanding of how Joe Simpson crawled to safety in the South American Andean mountains, Anthony Farrah-Hockley evaded capture after the Battle of Imjin River in the Korean War or how Shackelton's men survived the incredible journey by boat to South Georgia. Sixty of the World's greatest survival stories. Here is a selection of them; War Escapes Cambodian journalist who escaped the genocide of Pol Pot. Slavomir and six comrades escape from a labour camp in Siberia and walk thousands of miles to British India German soldier Clemens Forrell escapes from a labour camp in Siberia - 3 year trek to Iran Prison Escapes Mary Queen of Scots escapes from a remote Scottish Castle Frank Morris, Clarence and John Anglin escape from Alcatraz The story of Papillon who escaped successfully at the fifth attempt Shipwrecks Navigation by 18 year old, William Shotton, after most of the crew perished from mystery disease, 1893. Two survived, 1940 - two survivors from the British steamer Anglo-Saxon, 70 days and 2300 miles at sea to reach land in Bahamas Shackleton's and Worsley's incredible journey to South Georgia to save every man on the expedition. Survival Norwegian explorer, Fritdoj Nansen, amazing journey by a wind sailing sled and canoe made from shop marooned on icepack. Rugby team's Andes plane crash survivor's treks to safety and subsequent admissions of cannibalism. Aron Ralston becomes trapped in rocks in Utah national park, servers own arm to survive.
Author : Kenneth Kamler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Extreme environments
ISBN : OCLC:1200294057
Author : Kenneth Kamler
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 142997611X
Physiological constraints confine our bodies to less than one-fifth of the earth's surface. Beyond that fraction lie the extremes. What happens when we go to them? Dr. Kenneth Kamler has spent years observing exactly what happens. A vice president of the legendary Explorers Club, he has climbed, dived, sledded, floated, and trekked through some of the most treacherous and remote regions in the world. A consultant for NASA, Yale University, and the National Geographic Society, he has explored undersea caves, crossed the frozen Antarctic wastelands, and stitched a boy's hand back together while kneeling in knee-deep Amazonian mud. He was the only doctor on Everest during the tragic expedition documented in Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and helped treat its survivors. Kamler has devoted his life to investigating how our bodies respond to "environmental insults"-a nice way of saying the things that can kill us-and watched while some succumbed to them and others, sometimes miraculously, overcome them. Words like "extreme" and "survival" have lost some of their value from overuse and media hype. By showing us what happens when life itself is at stake, and the body's capacities put to their greatest test, this book reminds us what they truly mean. Divided into six sections-jungle, open sea, desert, underwater, high altitude, and outer space-Surviving the Extremes uses first-hand testimony and documented accounts to illustrate what happens in environments where our instinctive survival strategies must become fully engaged. These stories reveal how infinitely complex are the workings of the human body-and also how heartbreakingly fragile. At the heart of this book is a quest for the source of our will to survive and the haunting question of why some can, and others cannot, summon its awesome and nearly mystical power at their moment of greatest need. Surgeon, explorer, and masterful storyteller, Kamler takes us to the farthest reaches of the earth as well as into the uncharted territory within the human brain. Surviving the Extremes is a scientific nail-biter no reader will forget.
Author : Georgina Phillips
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780330465069
Snakes alive, people get up to some weird stuff! This fast-paced, entertaining and informative book is packed with stories of extreme human endurance throughout history. Read about amazing escapologist Harry Houdini, arctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, the crew of Apollo 13, the scientists who experimented on themselves for the sake of research and the people who survived getting lost in the wilderness. This book also contains lots of bizarre information about people who'll do anything to get into the record books - having the longest fingernails ever has its drawbacks!
Author : Anthonio Akkermans
Publisher : JG Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-09
Category : Survival
ISBN : 1572157453
Author : Bear Grylls
Publisher : Random House
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : 9780593071069
Bear Grylls knows what it takes to survive. But heâe(tm)s not the first. Take the American bombardier Louis Zamperini, who survived 47 days stranded at sea by catching and killing hungry sharks and drinking the warm blood of albatrosses âe" only to be captured by the Japanese and horrifically tortured for years in their most brutal POW campsâe¦ Or Marcus Luttrell, a Navy SEAL who single-handedly took on a Taliban regiment before dragging his bleeding, bullet-ridden body for days through the harsh mountains of Afghanistanâe¦ Or Nando Parrado, one of the survivors of a horrific air-crash high in the ice-bound Andes, who only lived because he was willing to eat the flesh of his dead companionsâe¦ In this gripping new book, Bear tells the stories of the adventurers, explorers, soldiers and spies whose refusal to quit in the most extreme situations has inspired him throughout his life. Some of them make uncomfortable reading âe" survival is rarely pretty. But all of them are tales of eye-watering bravery, death-defying resilience and extraordinary mental toughness by men and women who have one thing in common: true grit.
Author : Anthony Masters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Aircraft accidents
ISBN : 0749650524
A series of true life adventures, with each book containing a dramatic story written in an accessible style. Complete with fact files, time lines and a comprehensive glossary. This story is about survival above the snow line. Carefully constructed text suitable for reluctant readers. Ages 8-14.
Author : Peter Stark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-02-07
Category : Adventure and adventurers
ISBN : 0330486977
This title explores what happens to our bodies and minds in the perilous last moments of life when an extreme adventure goes wrong. With more and more people setting out to climb nearly unclimbable mountains, swim unfathomable seas, and cut through unimaginable jungles, extreme deaths and near-death experiences are filling the news. Peter Stark's book is a synthesis of adventure and science, anecdote and history, confronting, among other conditions, malaria, dehydration, scurvy, heat stroke and falling from a very great height.
Author : Anthonio Akkermans,Andy Middleton,Bill Mattos,Bob Morrison,Harry Cook
Publisher : Lorenz Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Aeroplane crash survival
ISBN : 0754815528
This book is the key to surviving ultimate life-threating events, accidents, random attacks and politically motivated insurgencies where we live, work or take our holidays.
Author : Rory Storm
Publisher : Element Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Survival
ISBN : 1902618335
Real life stories of heroic survivors, plus practical, fun survival skills to learn and some fantasy survival tests.
Author : Cara Tabachnick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781612439228
This collection of survival stories recounts the harrowing true experiences of people across the globe who faced certain death—and survived. The stories in this riveting volume seem too unbelievable to be true. Lost individuals facing the most severe natural disasters, the most dangerous situations, and the most inhospitable conditions . . . somehow making it out alive. From plane crashes and sinking ships to surviving in freezing forests and scorching deserts, this anthology includes some of the most famous, unbelievable tales of beating the odds. This book features gripping tales of sheer bravery and quick thinking, including: Juliane Koepcke, the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Peruvian Amazon Jose Salvador Alvarenga, who floated for thirteen months alone in the Pacific ocean Aron Ralston, who cut off his arm to escape the canyon he’d been trapped in Lincoln Hall, who was abandoned on Mount Everest . . . and many more.