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Alive tells the story of an Uruguayan rugby team (who were alumni of Stella Maris College), and their friends and family who were involved in the airplane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571. The plane crashed into the Andes mountains on Friday 13 October 1972. Of the 45 people on the flight, only 16 survived 72 days of sub-zero temperatures.
Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival is a 2004 nonfiction book written by maritime historian Dean King. [1][2] It is based on two of the survivors' journals, primarily Captain James Riley 's memoir Sufferings in Africa. [3][4] To research the book, Dean King embarked on a National Geographic Society sponsored expedition to retrace ...
Yossi Ghinsberg speaking in 2016. Yosseph "Yossi" Ghinsberg (Hebrew: יוסי גינסברג; born 5 April 1959) is an Israeli adventurer, author, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and motivational speaker, now based in Byron Bay, Australia. [1] Ghinsberg is most known for his survival story in an uncharted part of the Bolivian Amazon jungle for ...
Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II is a 2011 non-fiction book by American author Mitchell Zuckoff about a US military airplane called "The Gremlin Special", which crashed on May 13, 1945 in Netherlands New Guinea, and the subsequent rescue of the survivors. [1]
Callahan's story also featured on an episode of British survival expert Ray Mears's television series Extreme Survival. In 2024, the book was made into the feature documentary "76 Days Adrift," Executive Produced by Ang Lee and Steven Callahan and directed by Joe Wein. [5]
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption is a 2010 non-fiction book by Laura Hillenbrand. Unbroken is a biography of World War II veteran Louis Zamperini, a former Olympic track star who survived a plane crash in the Pacific Theater, spent 47 days drifting on a raft, and then survived more than two and a half years as a prisoner of war (POW) in three Japanese POW ...
The best true crime books read like thrillers, with twists and turns to keep you hooked. But they also tell a story larger story, contextualizing the crime as if they were gripping works of ...
Hugh Glass (c. 1783 – 1833) [1][2][3] was an American frontiersman, fur trapper, trader, hunter and explorer. He is best known for his story of survival and forgiveness after being left for dead by companions when he was mauled by a grizzly bear. No records exist regarding his origins but he is widely said to have been born in Pennsylvania to ...
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