The greatest survival stories ever told

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Contains: Leiningen versus the ants / Carl Stephenson To build a fire / Jack London Cooper's Creek / Alan Moorehead Walk well, my brother / Farley Mowat Three Skeleton Key / George G. Toudouze Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex / Owen Chase [The most dangerous game](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5278311W) / Richard Connell "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" / Rudyard Kipling A first-rate tragedy / Diana Preston Two mountain men / George Laycock Three days / John Haines The open boat / Stephen Crane The long walk / Slavomir Rawicz Alive / Piers Paul Read Annapurna / Maurice Herzog The boat journey / Sir Ernest Shackleton The Devil's Thumb / Jon Krakauer.

subjects: Fiction,  Hunting,  Islands,  survival of the fittest,  animal trapping,  trapping pits,  knouts,  hunting dogs,  Cossacks,  deaf-mutes,  snow leopards,  jaguars,  Juvenile fiction,  Hunting stories,  Juvenile works,  Human hunting,  Big game sport,  Travel fiction,  Literary Anthologies,  Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks,  Wilderness survival,  Survival,  Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.

People: Sanger Rainsford,  General Zaroff,  Whitney,  Ivan,  The Great White Czar

Places: Caribbean,  Amazon rainforest,  Ship-Trap Island,  Tibet

Times: 20th century