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Author: Samantha S. Bell Publisher: 12-Story Library ISBN: 9781632358462 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 32
Book Description
Mountain climber Colby Coombs was hit by a killer avalanche. Sailor Tami Oldham Ashcraft was battered by a hurricane. Polar explorer Ernest Shackleton watched his ship, the Endurance, sink beneath the frozen sea. This book features 12 harrowing and inspiring survival stories. Each includes attention-grabbing photos and fascinating facts. Sidebars go beyond the basics, and prompts invite readers to think for themselves. Additional mini-stories encourage further exploration.
Author: Samantha S. Bell Publisher: 12-Story Library ISBN: 9781632358462 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 32
Book Description
Mountain climber Colby Coombs was hit by a killer avalanche. Sailor Tami Oldham Ashcraft was battered by a hurricane. Polar explorer Ernest Shackleton watched his ship, the Endurance, sink beneath the frozen sea. This book features 12 harrowing and inspiring survival stories. Each includes attention-grabbing photos and fascinating facts. Sidebars go beyond the basics, and prompts invite readers to think for themselves. Additional mini-stories encourage further exploration.
Author: Samantha Bell Publisher: 12-Story Library ISBN: 9781645820239 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 32
Book Description
Mountain climber Colby Coombs was hit by a killer avalanche. Sailor Tami Oldham Ashcraft was battered by a hurricane. Polar explorer Ernest Shackleton watched his ship, the Endurance, sink beneath the frozen sea. This book features 12 harrowing and inspiring survival stories. Each includes attention-grabbing photos and fascinating facts. Sidebars go beyond the basics, and prompts invite readers to think for themselves. Additional mini-stories encourage further exploration.
Author: Bear Grills Publisher: HarperCollins UK ISBN: 9780007577972 Category : Accident victims Languages : en Pages : 0
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The story of 60 of the most astonishing stories of human endurance and endeavour. Now available as a small paperback the short stories make it perfect for the work commute or summer holiday.
Author: Collins Maps Publisher: HarperCollins UK ISBN: 000745029X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 264
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Extreme Survivors tells the illustrated story of 60 of the most daring escapes, famous shipwrecks, and ultimate survival stories. These are astonishing stories of human endurance and endeavour.
Author: Bear Grylls Publisher: Collins ISBN: 9780007482771 Category : Accident victims Languages : en Pages : 264
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Tales of sixty of the most daring escapes, famous shipwrecks, and ultimate survivals. The statistics, descriptions, archive photographs and illustrative maps will give the reader a full understanding of how Joe Simpson crawled to safety in the South American Andean mountains, how Anthony Farrah-Hockley evaded capture after the Battle of Imjin River in the Korean War and how Shackelton's men survived the incredible journey by boat to South Georgia. Sixty of the World's greatest survival stories. Here is a selection of them: The Miracle of Stairway B, and how 16 people managed to escape death in the Twin Towers on 9/11. The infamous story of the Montevideo rugby union team's plane crash in the Andes, and their subsequent admission of cannibalism -- 2012 is the 40th anniversary of the crash. Mary Queen of Scots and her escape from a remote Scottish castle. Three men pull off what is possibly the only successful escape from Alcatraz. The story of Dith Pran, the Cambodian journalist who escaped the genocide of Pol Pot. How the German soldier Cornelius Rost escaped from a labour camp in Siberia and trekked for 3 years to Iran. The story of 18 year old William Shotton and how he navigated his ship after most of the crew perished from a mystery disease in 1893. Hostage Situations The dramatic rescue of Íngrid Betancourt by Colombian security forces after six years as a hostage.
Author: Sally Young Publisher: Ready-Ed Publications ISBN: 1925611558 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 68
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Can you imagine being so lost that you lose all hope of being rescued, being savagely attacked by a wild animal or finding yourself wounded and abandoned at the top of a mountain? Extreme Survival Stories retells some remarkable stories of human survival against the odds. These true stories demonstrate the great endurance of people faced with extreme situations. Extreme Survival Stories provides a range of activities based upon the themes explored in each of the survival stories. Designed to encourage reluctant readers and those experiencing reading difficulties. Typical tasks include: • reading and comprehension based activities; • spelling/ vocabulary activities; • open ended language based tasks; • research tasks; • fiction and report writing; • question prompts for group, pair discussion.
Author: Cara Tabachnick Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1612439225 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 92
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This collection of survival stories recounts the harrowing true experiences of people across the globe who faced certain death—and survived. The stories in this riveting volume seem too unbelievable to be true. Lost individuals facing the most severe natural disasters, the most dangerous situations, and the most inhospitable conditions . . . somehow making it out alive. From plane crashes and sinking ships to surviving in freezing forests and scorching deserts, this anthology includes some of the most famous, unbelievable tales of beating the odds. This book features gripping tales of sheer bravery and quick thinking, including: Juliane Koepcke, the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Peruvian Amazon Jose Salvador Alvarenga, who floated for thirteen months alone in the Pacific ocean Aron Ralston, who cut off his arm to escape the canyon he’d been trapped in Lincoln Hall, who was abandoned on Mount Everest . . . and many more.
Author: Jon E. Lewis Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1620876655 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 533
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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.
Author: Samantha S. Bell
Author: Samantha S. Bell
Author: Samantha Bell
Author: Bear Grills
Author: Collins Maps
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Author: Bear Grylls
Author: Sally Young
Author: Cara Tabachnick
Author: Jon E. Lewis
Author: Collins Collins Maps