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CONTENTS

Оглавление

Cover

Title

Copyright

Foreword

Location map

SURVIVAL

Into the Frozen North, 1895

Another Antarctic Winter, 1912

The Day the World Shook, 1923

The Long Walk Home, 1931

Survival by Sacrifice, 1957

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 Kindest Cut, 1985

The Miracle of Stairway B, 2001

A Rock and a Hard Place, 2003

Alone in the Death Zone, 2008

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

Entombed for Two Weeks, 2010

PRISON

Charmed by a Renegade Queen, 1568

Flight of the Philosopher, 1621

Escape from Devil’s Island, 1932

The Escape from Alcatraz, 1962

The Dan Cooper Hijack, 1971

The Storming of Fresnes, 2003

WAR

The Man who Might be King, 1746

The Last of the Sixteen Thousand, 1842

Back to the Fatherland, 1915

The War on the Run, 1938

A Midget Submarine and Malaria, 1942

Canoeing into History, 1942

The Incredible Journey of Jan Baalsrud, 1943

The Great Escape, 1944

Across the Roof of the World, 1944

Escape from a Siberian Gulag, 1949

The Six Escapes of ‘Farra the Para’, 1951

Across the Killing Fields, 1975

The Jungle and the Genocide, 2000

SHIPWRECKS

The Trials of the Wager, 1740

After the Mutiny, 1789

Shipwreck, Slavery and the Burning Sand, 1815

The Whale and the Pacific, 1820

The Teenage Captain, 1893

Not a Man was Lost, 1914

1,700 Miles of Ocean, 1923

The Two who were Spared, 1940

The Longest Journey, 1942

Five Days in a Deadly Sea, 1945

The Widowmaker, 1961

Together Alone, 1973

The Life Raft, 1982

The Last Friend, 1995

HOSTAGES

Six Years in Beirut, 1985

The Girl from the Secret Cellar, 1998

Ten Years as a Secret Slave, 2000

Kidnapped by the FARC, 2002

Buried Alive, 2004

Christmas Day Heroics, 2009

The Hostages who Fought Back, 2009

Index

Bibliography, Image credits

About the Publisher

Extreme Survivors: 60 of the World’s Most Extreme Survival Stories

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