Survival Stories (Non fiction)


  • 4,000 Days in a Bankok Prison,Warren Fellows,
  • A Child Called "It"
  • Adrift: Seventy Six Days Lost at Sea,
  • Annapurna by Maurice Herzog, about the first successful summiting of an 8000+ meter peak.  Herzog and his team endured incredible hardship and, while his memory of the
  • Apollo 13 by Jim Lovell and Jeffrey Kluger
  • Climb : stories of survival from rock, snow, and ice / edited by Clint Willis.
  • Danger stalks the land : Alaskan tales of death and survival / Larry Kaniut.
  • Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls: true stories of castaways and other survivors. Leslie, Edward E.
  • Dibs: in search of self - true story about a child who overcame many emoptional idsabilities, told by his therapist
  • Endurance Shackelton's Legendary Expedition by Caroline Alexander;
  • Everest : mountain without mercy. Coburn, Broughton, 1951-
  • Fire fighters : stories of survival from the front lines of firefighting.Ashcraft, Tami Oldham, 1960-
  • Geeks: how two lost boys rode the internet out of Idaho - true story about two 19 year olds who made new lives for themselves in Chicago.
  • Guts.Paulsen.
  • Hot Zone
  • Ice Bound: A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole by Dr. Jerri Nielsen
  • In the land of white death by Valerian Albanov?
  • Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer
  • Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
  • It's Not About the Bike,
  • Kon-Tiki: Across The Pacific by Raft by Thor Heyerdahl
  • Larson. Isaac's Storm.
  • Left for Dead
  • Lionheart: The Jesse Martin Story.
  • Lost on a mountain in Maine
  • Monster: Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member by Monster Kody Scott, Sanyika Shakur
  • Not Without My Daughter,
  • Papillion
  • Prairie Earth,
  • Red sky in mourning : a true story of love, loss, and survival at sea.Bailey, Maurice.
  • Shackleton's boat trip by F.A. Worsley.
  • Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea,
  • Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World by Jennifer Armstrong.
  • So that others may live : Caroline Hebard & her search-and-rescue dogs /
  • Staying alive! 117 days adrift--the incredible saga of a courageous couple who outwitted death at sea
  • Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail,
  • Story of the Titanic as told by it's Survivors,
  • Survive the savage sea. Robertson, Dougal
  • Surviving Gallerias by Stanley Williams and Fen Montaigne
  • The Climb
  • The Donner party by Werther
  • The Dove
  • The Endurance: Shackleton's legendary Antarctic expedition by Alexander
  • The Grounding of Group 6 by Julian Thompson.


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