The Best Survival Stories Ever Told

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.