Extreme Survivors: 60 of the World’s Most Extreme Survival Stories. Collins Maps
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EXTREME SURVIVORS
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CONTENTS
Another Antarctic Winter, 1912
The Inconvenient Survivor, 1960
Disaster on the Dark Side of the Moon, 1970
Two Miles Up without a Parachute, 1971
The Cruel Cost of Survival, 1972
The Boy who Fell Out of the Storm, 1979
Under the Rumbling Mountain, 1980
The Miracle of Stairway B, 2001
The Sole Survivor of Flight 626, 2009
The Miracle on the Hudson, 2009
Journey from the Centre of the Earth, 2010
The Survivor of Circumstance, 2010
PRISON
Charmed by a Renegade Queen, 1568
Flight of the Philosopher, 1621
Escape from Devil’s Island, 1932
The Escape from Alcatraz, 1962
WAR
The Man who Might be King, 1746
The Last of the Sixteen Thousand, 1842