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In Survivor, Jon E. Lewis brings together the greatest tales of adventure seekers and extreme tourists'¬ ;some who might even seem crazy for their feats. Survivor gets the reader into the mind of the men who have gone further, deeper, higher, and beyond the bounds of normal endurance. The nearly forty stories are organized by terrain: north and south poles, mountains, oceans and rivers, subterranean landscapes, deserts, jungles, and the air. It'¬"s the perfect book for any reader with an insatiable thirst for adventure and exploration.

Jon E. Lewis is a historian and writer, whose books on history and military history are sold worldwide. Jon holds graduate and postgraduate degrees in history, and his work has appeared in New Statesman, the Independent, Time Out, and the Guardian. He is also editor of SAS: The Elite Special Forces in their Own Words.

Introduction	p. ix
The Poles	p. 1
Sir Douglas Mawson Last Man Walking	p. 3
Richard Evelyn Byrd The Blow	p. 16
Salomon Andree Adrift on the Ice	p. 22
Sir. Ernest Shackleton 88° South	p. 39
Sir John Franklin The March to Fort Enterprise	p. 48
W. Elmer Ekblaw Thin Ice	p. 65
Robert Falcon Scott The End	p. 70
Mountains	p. 33
Walter Bonatti Death Zone	p. 85
Sebastian Snow Cotopaxi	p. 103
Ed Drummond Mirror, Mirror	p. 113
Sir Edmund Hillary The Long Grind	p. 129
Maurice Herzog Extreme Danger	p. 141
A. J. Barrington Dog Days	p. 154
Meriwether Lewis & William Clark Across the Great Divide	p. 168
Sir Laurens Van der Post Deluge	p. 186
Oceans & Rivers	p. 195
Sir Ernest Shackleton The Boat Journey	p. 197
Thor Heyerdahl The Reef	p. 218
Alain Bombard Atlantic Ordeal	p. 231
John Blashford-Snell The Cataracts of the Zaire	p. 241
Sir Ranulph Fiennes Race Against Time	p. 249
Charles Waterton Riding a Guianese Cayman	p. 254
Theodore Roosevelt River of Doubt	p. 259
Steven Callahan Holed	p. 278
John Ridgway & Chay Blyth Storm	p. 289
Under the Ground	p. 297
Norbert Casteret The Abyss	p. 299
Jacques-Yves Cousteau Rapture	p. 335
Deserts	p. 349
Sven Hedin Dying of Thirst	p. 351
Bertram Thomas Crossing the Empty Quarter	p. 364
William John Wills Slow Death at Cooper's Creek	p. 378
Nick Danziger The Crossing	p. 395
Nikolai Nikhailovich Przhevalski The Sands of the Gobi	p. 406
Ernest Giles Escape from the Outback	p. 419
Peter Fleming The Pitiless Sun	p. 426
Antoine de Saint-Exupery Prisoners of the Sand	p. 431
Jungles	p. 443
Henry Savage Landor Amazonia Extremis	p. 445
Colonel Jim Corbett Man-Eater	p. 461
The Air	p. 477
Charles A. Lindbergh The Spirit of St Louis	p. 479
Sources & Acknowledgements	p. 497
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