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_aLong, David, _d1961- _eauthor. _928640 |
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_aSurvivors : _bextraordinary tales from the wild and beyond / _cDavid Long ; illustrated by Kerry Hyndman. |
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_aLondon : _bFaber and Faber, _c2016. |
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_a184 pages; _bcolour illustrations; _c32 cm. |
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505 | _aIntroduction -- Juliane Koepcke : the girl who fell from the sky -- Douglas Mawson : the man who came home alone -- Hans Peter Strelczyk and Günter Wetzel : the friends who crossed the border by balloon -- Tami Oldham : the woman who sailed into a hurricane -- Roger Chapman and Roger Mallinson : the men who shared a sandwich on the seabed -- Aron Ralston : the canyoneer who cut off his own arm -- Poon Lim : the man who sucked blood from a shark -- Ernest Shackleton : the commander who saved his crew -- Hugh Glass : the trapper who grappled with a grizzly -- Mauro Prosperi : the desert runner who drank his own wee -- Sue Ruff and Bruce Nelson : the couple who were blasted by a volcano -- Colby Coombs : the mountaineer who overcame an avalanche -- Eric LeMarque : the snowboarder who took a deadly wrong turn -- Craig Hosking : the pilot who crashed inside a volcano -- Anna Bågenholm : the woman who froze to death -- yet lived -- Johann Westhauser : the carver who got trapped for a dozen days -- John Capes : the survivor no one believed -- Leonid Rogozov : the doctor who operated on himself -- Rob Tesar : the student who was sucked under by quicksand -- Greg Rasmussen : the conservationist who crashed in the Kalahari -- Brant Webb and Todd Russell : the miners who spent two weeks underground -- Claudio Corti : the climber who was snatched from the wall of death -- Yossi Ghinsberg : the adventurer who went over a waterfall. | ||
520 | _aThese real-life stories of extreme survival, include The Man Who Sucked Blood from a Shark, a sailor who survived for 133 days on a raft in the Atlantic when his ship was torpedoed, using shark's blood in place of fresh water. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, a teenager who fell 2 miles from an aeroplane and trekked through the Amazon jungle to safety. The Woman Who Froze to Death - Yet Lived, a woman who was trapped under freezing water for so long her heart stopped. It combines classic tales such as Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic voyage, as well as more modern exploits such as the adventurer who inspired the movie 127 hours. | ||
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_aWilderness survival _vJuvenile literature. _920091 |
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_aSurvival _vJuvenile literature. _922381 |
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_aJungle survival _vJuvenile literature. _920092 |
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_aSurvival at sea _vJuvenile literature. _939961 |
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_aAdventure and adventurers _vJuvenile literature. _922524 |
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_aHyndman, Kerry, _eillustrator. _928641 |
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