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These stories of peril and against-all-odds survival will leave you feeling thankful that you're just reading about them, not living them! All of these titles are located in the Adult Nonfiction section of the Library.

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As Told at The Explorers Club: More Than Fifty Gripping Tales of Adventure. 2003. (910.4 A).

Baker, Ian. The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place. 2004. (915.15 B).

Bergreen,  Laurence. Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe. 2003. (910.41 B).

Callahan, Steven. Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea. 1986. (910.091631C).

Carter, Bill. Red Summer: The Danger, Madness, and Exaltation of Salmon Fishing in a Remote Alaskan Village. 2008. (639.2 C).

Casey, Susan. The Devil’s Teeth: A True Story of Obsessions and Survival Among America’s Great White Sharks. 2005. (597.33 C).
     Also available: CD

Child, Greg. Over the Edge: The True Story of Four American Climbers’ Kidnap and Escape in the Mountains of Central Asia. 2002. (364.154 C).
     Also available: CD

Cussler, Clive. The Sea Hunters. 1996. (910.452 C).
     Also available: Large Type

Drury, Bob. Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue. 2007. (940.545973 D).

Fleming, Fergus. Off the Map: Tales of Endurance and Exploration. 2004.
(910.9 F).

Gonzales, Laurence. Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why: True Stories of Miraculous Endurance and Sudden Death. 2003. (613.69 G).

Grinnell, George. Death on the Barrens: A True Story of Courage and Tragedy in the Canadian Arctic. 2010. (917.1904 G).

Henderson, Bruce. True North: Peary, Cook, and the Race to the Pole. 2005.
(910.91632 H).
     Also available: CD

Heyerdahl, Thor. Kon-Tiki: Across the Pacific by Raft. 1950. (910.4 H).

Horwitz, Tony. Blue Latitudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before. 2002. (910.92 H).

Jenkins, McKay. The Last Ridge: The Epic Story of the U.S. Army’s 10th Mountain Division and the Assault on Hitler's Europe. 2003. (940.54215 J).

Junger, Sebastian. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea. 1997.
(974.45 J).
     Also available: Large Type, CD

Kearns, David A. Where Hell Freezes Over: A Story of Amazing Bravery and Survival. 2005. (613.69 K).

Krakauer, Jon. Into the Wild. 1996. (917.98045 K).
     Also available: Large Type, CD, eAudiobook

Kurson, Robert. Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II. 2004. (940.5451 K).
     Also available: Large Type, CD, eAudiobook

Lansing, Alfred. Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage. 1959. (919.9 L).

Lovell, Jim and Kluger Jeffrey. Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13. 1994.
(629.454 L).

Maas, Peter. The Terrible Hours: The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History. 1999. (623.8887 M).
     Also available: Large Type, CD

Maclean, Norman. Young Men & Fire. 1992. (634.9618 M).
     Also available: Large Type, Digital Player

Metz, Dave. Crossing the Gates of Alaska: One Man, Two Dogs, 600 Miles off the Map. 2010. (917.9804 M).

Parrado, Nando with Vince Rause. Miracle in the Andes: 72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home. 2006. (982.6 P).
     Also available: CD

Ralston, Aron. Between a Rock and a Hard Place. 2004. (796.5223 R).
     Also available: Large Type, CD

Read, Piers. Alive: Sixteen Men, Seventy-two Days, and Insurmountable Odds--The Classic Adventure of Survival in the Andes. 2005. (904.7 R).

Sabbag, Robert. Down Around Midnight: A Memoir of Crash and Survival.
2009. (363.124 S).

Salisbury, Gay and Laney Salisbury. The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs And Men in a Race Against an Epidemic. 2003. (614.5123 S).

Silverwood, John. Black Wave: A Family's Adventure at Sea and the Disaster that Saved Them. 2008. (910.9164 S).
     Also available: eAudiobook

Simpson, Joe. Touching the Void. 1989. (796.522 S).

Souhami, Diana. Selkirk's Island: The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe. 2001. (996.18 S).

Stanton, Doug. In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors. 2001. (940.545973 S).
     Also available: Large Type

Thayer, Helen. Three Among the Wolves: A Couple and their Dog Live a Year with Wolves in the Wild. 2004. (599.773 T).

Tougias, Mike. The Finest Hours: The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guard's Most Daring Sea Rescue. 2009. (910.916346 T).