The Best Survival Stories Ever Told
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The Best Survival Stories Ever Told by Jon E Lewis
This collection of classic tales comprises over thirty accounts of true-life adventure taken from contemporary memoirs, letters, and journals. They span the years from 1800 to the end of the twentieth century, in a period which can be termed the modern age of exploration. Among the writers are:- Ernest Shackleton
- Douglas Mawson
- Salomon Andree
- Sebastian Snow
- Ed Drummond
- Edmund Hillary
- Maurice Herzog
- Lewis and Clark
- Thor Heyerdahl
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Jacques Cousteau
- Sven Hedin
- Norbert Casteret
- Jim Corbett
- Charles A. Lindbergh
The Best Survival Stories Ever Told recounts stories of ordinary mortals who achieved extraordinary things. Spanning the ice-locked Poles and the endless deserts of Arabia to the storm-tossed South Atlantic, the rain forests of the Amazon, and sheer peaks of the Himalayas, it charts the dangerous relationship between men and nature.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781616084554 |
| ISBN 10 | 1616084553 |
| Title | The Best Survival Stories Ever Told |
| Author | Jon E Lewis |
| Series | Best Stories Ever Told |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Skyhorse Publishing |
| Year published | 2011-11-01 |
| Number of pages | 468 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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