"Published by arrangement with Book Creation, LLC New York, NY"--T.p. verso

"500 years of the greatest eyewitness accounts"--Jacket

Includes bibliographical references (p. 460-461)

The journey of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca -- Hans Staden: hostage to cannibals -- Captive: the affliction & redemption of Mary Rowlandson -- Marooned: the story of Alexander Selkirk -- Enslaved: the ordeal of Olaudah Equiano -- The death raft of the Méduse -- The wreck of the whale ship Essex -- Four years in the Arctic: the ordeal of the Ross Expedition -- Black Elk speaks -- Mawson's trial -- Endurance & courage: Shackleton's heroic journey -- Saint-Exupéry: prisoner of the sands -- The sinking of the USS Squalus and the underwater rescue of its survivors -- Escape from Colditz -- Kazik: The Warsaw Ghetto rebellion & the escape of the remnant -- Survival in Auschwitz: the drowned and the saved -- Thesiger in the desert: return to Salala -- Maurice Herzog's Annapurna -- K2: the savage mountain -- John McCain: prisoner of war -- Explosion on Apollo 13 -- Survive the savage sea -- Alive: air crash in the Andes

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