The author relates his nearly fatal adventures mountaineering in the Andes, adventures that included a fall into a crevice, broken limbs, and return to safety.
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc
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Author:Simpson, JoeSummary: - Author:SOUTHALL, IvanSummary:
Six young people and a pilot board a small plane and set off for a weekend in N.S.W. They are destined never to reach there....
- Author:LOANE, BillSummary:
A dramatic true story of survival in the north Kimberley region of Western Australia after the MV Koolama is attacked and bombed by three Japanese float planes in February 1942.
- Author:MARTEL, YannSummary:
Sixteen-year-old Pi's father owns a zoo in India, until the family decides to immigrate to Canada. On the way tragedy strikes and the ship sinks. Pi finds himself in a lifeboat with a hyena, a zebra, a tiger and an orangutan. He...
- Author:Onyebuchi, TochiSummary:
"A diverse cast of narrators provides glimpses of a near-future Earth devastated by climate change, nuclear disaster, and disease."- AudioFile Magazine. "Onyebuchi sets fire to the boundary between fiction and reality,...
