Survive : stories of castaways and cannibals
Title:
Survive : stories of castaways and cannibals
Author:
Hardcastle, Nate.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, [2001]
©2001
Physical Description:
301 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary:
Stories about human beings fighting to stay alive. The people in these stories find themselves in nightmarish circumstances - cut off from civilization, often starving or dying of thirst - and have to struggle to survive. Many of them confront the prospect of resorting to eating thier companions - or being eaten themselves.
Language:
English
Contents:
Unknown shore (Patrick O'Brian); Adrift: seventy-six days lost at sea (Steven Callahan); Rivers ran East (Leonard Clard); Once, in the jungle (Daniel Zalewski); Keep the river on your right (Tobias Schneebaum); Cannibalism in the cars (Mark Twain); Across the plains in the Donner party (Virginia Reed Murphy); Dangerous journey (J. Ross Browne); Rage to survive (Jacques Vignes); Shackleton's forgotten men (Lennard Bickel); Let me survive: a true story (Louise Longo with Marie-Therese Cuny); Place where the world ends (Richard Cunningham); Shipwreck and adventures of Monsieur Pierre Viaud (Pierre Viaud); Typee (Herman Melville); Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe); Whale tooth (Jack London).
ISBN:
9781560253679
Format :
Book