NASA sends three astronauts on America’s fifth mission to the moon. Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13 Joe Simpson and his climbing partner, Simon Yates, had just reached the top of a 21,000ft peak in the Andes when disaster struck.ħ. Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man’s Miraculous SurvivalĪ classic tale of mountaineering endurance and one of the best books about survival ever written. Four months later, his emaciated corpse was found.Ħ. In 1992, Chris McCandless journeyed deep into the Alaskan wilderness after shrugging off the pressures of modern urban life. This story tells the first-hand account of the first man in history to survive a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his sloop capsized only six days out. Louis Zamperini was one of three plane crash survivors floating on a raft for 47 days before being pulled from the ocean and placed into a Japanese POW camp. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption ![]() The true story of a 24-hour period on Everest which started with a storm and ended with the worst single-season death toll in the peak’s history.ģ. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster Marooned on the Antarctic continent, Shackleton and his team battle the elements in one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded.Ģ. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage ![]() To help you choose your next read, we’ve put together our favourite books about survival, filled with true-life tales that will compel readers for years to come.ġ. If you want to know about how people have faced and overcome some of the most dangerous situations ever, this book is for you.Our selection of the best books about survival includes astonishing accounts of endurance to tales of daring escape and everything in betweenīooks about survival demonstrate what humans are capable of when pushed to their limits. Whether it’s the treacherous slopes of a mountain in hurricane-force winds, being cast adrift in the middle of the ocean or a hellish trek through arid desert, the challenges described within illustrate the true strength of the human spirit. These stories are incredible, but all are completely true. These stories are about people who have found themselves in these extreme situations in locations ranging from the heat and humidity of the jungle, to the frozen wastelands of the Antarctic. Thankfully, most of us will never find ourselves in a situation where we will find out. Are these special people? Or do we all have these hidden reserves of strength which will only become apparent in the face of great adversity? ![]() When everything seems lost, when all hope of rescue is gone, when exhaustion, illness, injury, and hunger have taken their toll, some people still find the mental strength to continue. ![]() But most of all, these are stories about the triumph of the human spirit. These are stories of courage, determination, and the ability to overcome injury, pain, and physical and mental challenges that seem overwhelming. This audiobook is about what happens when the only way to stay alive is to overcome seemingly impossible odds. “I’m Alive!” 13 Incredible People That Cheated Death & Miraculously Lived to Tell the Story.Ĭould you survive for three weeks in the South American jungle alone and without food or supplies? What about 60 days trapped in a car in deep snow not far from the Arctic Circle? Or for more than a year in an open boat adrift in the Pacific Ocean? What if your own survival and that of your friends depended on your making a journey of more than 800 miles over the storm-tossed South Atlantic in a small boat?
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