Extreme Survivors

<p>Extreme Survivors tells the illustrated story of 60 of the most daring escapes, famous shipwrecks, and ultimate survival stories. These are astonishing stories of human endurance and endeavour.</p> <p>The statistics, descriptions, archive photographs and illustrative maps will give the reader a full understanding of how Joe Simpson crawled to safety in the South American Andean mountains, how Anthony Farrar-Hockley evaded capture after the Battle of Imjin River in the Korean War and how Shackleton’s men survived the incredible journey by boat to South Georgia.</p> <p>Sixty of the world's greatest survival stories. Here is a selection of them:</p> <p>Survival Stories<br>• The Miracle of Stairway B, and how 16 people managed to escape death in the Twin Towers on 9/11.<br>• The infamous story of the Montevideo rugby union team’s plane crash in the Andes, and their subsequent admission of cannibalism – 2012 is the 40th anniversary of the crash.</p> <p>Prison Escapes<br>• Mary Queen of Scots and her escape from a remote Scottish castle.<br>• Three men pull off what is possibly the only successful escape from Alcatraz.<br>• Henri Charrière’s (Papillon) five escape attempts from the Devil’s Island penal colony.</p> <p>Wartime Escapes<br>• The story of Dith Pran, the Cambodian journalist who escaped the genocide of Pol Pot.<br>• How the German soldier Cornelius Rost escaped from a labour camp in Siberia and trekked for 3 years to Iran.</p> <p>Shipwrecks<br>• Ernest Shackleton’s incredible journey to South Georgia to save every man on an expedition.<br>• The story of 18 year old William Shotton and how he navigated his ship after most of the crew perished from a mystery disease in 1893.</p> <p>Hostage Situations<br>• Naheeda Bi’s ten years in captivity after her notorious tribal kidnapping in Pakistan.<br>• The dramatic rescue of Íngrid Betancourt by Colombian security forces after six years as a hostage.</p>