EXTREME SURVIVORS

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       CONTENTS

       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