True Tales of Survival
a list by Peter, the avid reader who runs Flashlight Worthy
Maybe it's a boy thing, but I'm a sucker for a great tale of survivial. Having read each and every book on the list below, I guarantee there's not a clunker in the bunch.
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onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers
by Jim Dwyer, Kevin Flynn
As someone who's made his home in New York for the last 9 years -- and literally watched the first of the Twin Towers fall -- reading about 9/11 can be extremely difficult. This title -- a literal minute-by-minute account from the moment the first plan struck to the moment the 2nd tower fell -- strikes me as the perfect balance of dispassionate, inspiring and honest.
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384 page paperback
|$10.20
|162 reviews
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onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
by Alfred Lansing
Ernest Shackleton is one of those people you see in those silvery, cracking photos from the turn of the last century who looks like he hung out with Jules Verne and Mark Twain. He also looks like a man who does NOT like to fail. Needless to say, his trying to survive a few winters in Antarctica makes for a good read.
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288 page paperback
|$10.17
|389 reviews
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onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
by Nathaniel Philbrick
I had absolutely no idea that "Moby-Dick" was based on a real whale. And I REALLY had no idea that the whale was so malevolent as to sink a whaling ship by ramming it repeatedly with its head. Seriously.
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320 page paperback
|$10.20
|277 reviews
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onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster
by Jon Krakauer
If you're at all a fan of the genre, it's hard to imagine that you haven't read this one yet but I included it on the off chance you haven't gotten to it yet. A word of warning? Don't start this one unless you've got a 4 or 5 hour window open in front of you. You won't set it down until you're done.
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368 page paperback
|$10.17
|1,473 reviews
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onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">The Raft: The True and Thrilling Story of 34 Days at Sea on a Rubber Raft
by Trumbull Robert
This books been out of print for a long time -- maybe even 50 years. But there are enough used copies floating around (oops, sorry for bad pun) that Amazon always has one available for a few bucks. Do yourself a favor and pick one up for your next trip to the beach.
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onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;">The Terrible Hours: The Greatest Submarine Rescue in History
by Peter Maas
Amazon readers say:
"Horrifyingly wonderful." "I knew the outcome but I couldn't put this book down." "Interesting, informative, suspenseful." "I just couldn't put it down."
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272 page paperback
|$11.90
|128 reviews
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Know any books we should add to the list above?
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