Extreme survivors : 60 epic stories of human endurance / [text written by Richard Happer ; foreword by Bear Grylls]

By:

Happer, Richard, author [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Glasgow : Collins, 2019.Description: 352 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN:

9780008347833
0008347832

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Genre/Form:

Biography.

DDC classification:

904.0922 23

Summary: oreword by Bear Grylls, presenter of Running Wild and The Island. The most daring escapes, famous shipwrecks, and ultimate survival stories. These are astonishing stories of human endurance and endeavour. Compelling descriptions combined with illustrative maps give you a full understanding of the world's greatest survival stories. Astonishing stories of human endurance and endeavour. Find out how: * Joe Simpson crawled to safety in the South American Andean mountains * Anthony Farrar-Hockley evaded capture after the Battle of Imjin River in the Korean War * Shackleton's men survived the incredible journey by boat to South Georgia * Naheeda Bi survived ten years in captivity after her notorious tribal kidnapping in Pakistan 60 ultimate survival stories revealed from death defying survival stories to heroic wartime escapes. Tortuous long sea journeys following shipwrecks and long periods of confinement due to being taken hostage or in prison. How adventurers managed to overcome the odds to come out the other end alive.

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Non-Fiction	Waimate Event Centre - Long term storage	Non Fiction	904.0922 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not For Loan	Not for loan		A00773577

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oreword by Bear Grylls, presenter of Running Wild and The Island. The most daring escapes, famous shipwrecks, and ultimate survival stories. These are astonishing stories of human endurance and endeavour. Compelling descriptions combined with illustrative maps give you a full understanding of the world's greatest survival stories.

Astonishing stories of human endurance and endeavour.

Find out how:

* Joe Simpson crawled to safety in the South American Andean mountains

* Anthony Farrar-Hockley evaded capture after the Battle of Imjin River in the Korean War

* Shackleton's men survived the incredible journey by boat to South Georgia

* Naheeda Bi survived ten years in captivity after her notorious tribal kidnapping in Pakistan

60 ultimate survival stories revealed from death defying survival stories to heroic wartime escapes. Tortuous long sea journeys following shipwrecks and long periods of confinement due to being taken hostage or in prison. How adventurers managed to overcome the odds to come out the other end alive.

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