The Best Survival Stories Ever Told

The Best Survival Stories Ever Told
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Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages : 533
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ISBN-10 : 9781620876657
ISBN-13 : 1620876655
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Book Synopsis The Best Survival Stories Ever Told by : Jon E. Lewis

Download or read book The Best Survival Stories Ever Told written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Andrée 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.


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