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Extreme Survivors: 60 of the World’s Most Extreme Survival Stories
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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.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 Farrar-Hockley evaded capture after the Battle of Imjin River in the Korean War and how Shackleton’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:Survival Stories• 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.Prison Escapes• 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.• Henri Charrière’s (Papillon) five escape attempts from the Devil’s Island penal colony.Wartime Escapes• 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.Shipwrecks• Ernest Shackleton’s incredible journey to South Georgia to save every man on an expedition.• 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• Naheeda Bi’s ten years in captivity after her notorious tribal kidnapping in Pakistan.• The dramatic rescue of Íngrid Betancourt by Colombian security forces after six years as a hostage.
EXTREME SURVIVORS
EXTREME SURVIVORS
EXTREME SURVIVORS
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CONTENTS
Cover (#u4a4a12ff-f16d-5ea0-a151-fb61d85bdfb1)
Title (#u0d1ccfc0-4ecf-5405-933f-ce6d015c534c)
Copyright (#ua2699764-7054-5695-9270-0d3b0a131683)
Foreword (#u8ab246d6-3371-59cd-b853-e20bdf91bace)
Location map (#u2f961cb0-5f0d-5e23-800c-94ce6bdaa399)
SURVIVAL (#ue806458b-597d-57b2-84a9-e2e6dd1d3a2f)
Into the Frozen North, 1895 (#ub2c8e4ff-6719-5923-86a5-2f266d7d7b6f)
Another Antarctic Winter, 1912 (#u6673d93e-320e-5250-a7bd-67b852d0daed)
The Day the World Shook, 1923 (#ucdde909a-6860-55b5-b750-34fdb4102068)
The Long Walk Home, 1931 (#u6584eb85-551d-5c29-af8b-2ed7637d0a9d)
Survival by Sacrifice, 1957 (#u084c8caa-e5a5-5bcd-8c48-d71f9e9549a0)
The Inconvenient Survivor, 1960 (#ufef032bd-2f07-5400-b7ac-88394eae8d49)
Disaster on the Dark Side of the Moon, 1970 (#ucbf45afa-1cfc-5cf0-a86e-9a996117619b)
Two Miles Up without a Parachute, 1971 (#uf62d24cf-a31a-5383-b0d0-fda7e57473a9)
The Cruel Cost of Survival, 1972 (#uc07ab46d-1bbb-5e48-b9cc-99626899d5a2)
The Boy who Fell Out of the Storm, 1979 (#ucba3b5aa-4b63-5aa9-b32f-5ca207c22af0)
Under the Rumbling Mountain, 1980 (#ucfe96c18-b7c0-57c0-9d5e-63be20888426)
The Kindest Cut, 1985 (#ua2ee5d06-b352-5f3e-ad5f-eee4edd47903)
The Miracle of Stairway B, 2001 (#ub4ddd412-4227-5cce-bd78-dcb67a7e1259)
A Rock and a Hard Place, 2003 (#u97c20181-20f7-56b9-8ff0-428b060ff04b)
Alone in the Death Zone, 2008 (#uac535d75-24b7-54b3-af3f-93ef89b4272f)
The Sole Survivor of Flight 626, 2009 (#u87a6774e-9034-5292-9733-2ebe3dff68a9)
The Miracle on the Hudson, 2009 (#u9d7627cd-6ffe-59f0-be55-cba4a4b601b1)
Journey from the Centre of the Earth, 2010 (#u4a3b5bba-b005-56f7-aa6f-5e09aec584a8)
The Survivor of Circumstance, 2010 (#uc80d777f-f910-568c-bb83-a9c9c84dc3ea)
Entombed for Two Weeks, 2010 (#ua188b142-a968-5386-a816-695a7bb2525f)
PRISON
Charmed by a Renegade Queen, 1568 (#uc5c12500-ac74-5111-bc06-b5412655eefa)
Flight of the Philosopher, 1621 (#u0f71299f-7aa3-5518-9f55-3e814e70f286)
Escape from Devil’s Island, 1932 (#u36376ef1-c6bc-56d3-be8c-23919f885814)
The Escape from Alcatraz, 1962 (#u5ca7aa50-dbfd-5c74-9c9c-f56f34396443)
The Dan Cooper Hijack, 1971 (#u41722adb-fb7f-5327-90d0-851e8631bda5)
The Storming of Fresnes, 2003 (#u78da61c3-c3c0-5d00-9f40-c034280c3990)
WAR
The Man who Might be King, 1746 (#u08861d1d-7f9b-58f5-9bdd-a62ff3042f19)
The Last of the Sixteen Thousand, 1842 (#u8c244f6b-6e79-597b-8f48-19cc43f47a64)
Back to the Fatherland, 1915 (#u48b2745c-acd9-5deb-b35e-b5266d71b6d5)
The War on the Run, 1938 (#uc827c243-bcbb-5191-aad7-2e3b82eab90a)
A Midget Submarine and Malaria, 1942 (#u8e8f6431-249f-5afd-9cf7-41f171d2365e)
Canoeing into History, 1942 (#u4e5bd0b4-df6b-5623-b5e7-3ff6ee67db08)
The Incredible Journey of Jan Baalsrud, 1943 (#u9c3edaaa-d0e7-5bda-ad28-8fdc5ffe1036)
The Great Escape, 1944 (#u2c0f307f-dca7-56ef-a12d-19448dc1ddf5)
Across the Roof of the World, 1944 (#u649238b5-4ed8-531f-86ec-aa2bd34fe2c0)
Escape from a Siberian Gulag, 1949 (#u0818c553-2065-54c8-b5ad-52f73d6dbd4c)
The Six Escapes of ‘Farra the Para’, 1951 (#u3f416381-2f24-5a31-a777-bc02783f471e)
Across the Killing Fields, 1975 (#u6b2b9182-95e9-583a-9858-763f2ce4ade7)
The Jungle and the Genocide, 2000 (#u65311a85-77fc-5ac9-9029-aeca2016ade5)
SHIPWRECKS (#u63fb1b07-ea9c-5514-b49d-120def0861dc)
The Trials of the Wager, 1740 (#uf26dc0c2-6676-5b1e-9515-2bb801a423c8)
After the Mutiny, 1789 (#u57611bfc-163b-5713-be81-358746742dc4)
Shipwreck, Slavery and the Burning Sand, 1815 (#u93a20c15-9966-534d-982c-102472850203)
The Whale and the Pacific, 1820 (#u6bf9e4e7-f34e-50ae-8934-5d09701cd24c)
The Teenage Captain, 1893 (#u044ab6ee-48ba-5865-96e0-32142d5d2155)
Not a Man was Lost, 1914 (#u5378c4ce-dab9-5b8f-875b-baa5ba6e093f)
1,700 Miles of Ocean, 1923 (#u42957cf8-82dc-5406-8ab1-0ecf8ff8bf82)
The Two who were Spared, 1940 (#u5f45c99e-aaca-54f5-9c46-7bb5f49da6b9)
The Longest Journey, 1942 (#u62151996-a269-50e8-b8dc-5eaeb9b47e88)
Five Days in a Deadly Sea, 1945 (#u674a5b80-a280-568e-96f1-998658115711)
The Widowmaker, 1961 (#u16f66b5b-fa95-51e8-a165-a29de2b81796)
Together Alone, 1973 (#ubb6d5d76-3e46-5c8f-beb8-9751cafffdcf)
The Life Raft, 1982 (#ude30936f-5d7b-5f82-a182-0144aceb51df)
The Last Friend, 1995 (#uc5e1a1e8-b3ca-5090-b066-1fac5d425251)
HOSTAGES
Six Years in Beirut, 1985 (#ubba00bc5-7e1f-5e55-9c55-bbede953b9b1)
The Girl from the Secret Cellar, 1998 (#u9093fd85-4c5f-5acf-b3b5-6e5418fd828d)
Ten Years as a Secret Slave, 2000 (#u859285c3-25bc-5348-94f6-2770f6a2d0e9)
Kidnapped by the FARC, 2002 (#u05094e22-7222-5a61-8684-474a6cdc8f15)
Buried Alive, 2004 (#u5796e06a-f9af-54b1-8bcb-83f4e6211db3)
Christmas Day Heroics, 2009 (#u77f8bec2-803d-50ba-bdf7-bb603e1cc1cf)
The Hostages who Fought Back, 2009 (#u2f27394c-cde0-5076-bb8a-56f73b8ac7b9)
Index (#u04e0beb8-b0cc-5509-ac41-e467dbbeaedc)
Bibliography, Image credits (#uce5a4f11-c829-5a15-940d-495578fb373c)
