After their 43-foot schooner was stove in by a pod of killer whales, the six members of the Robertson family spent 37 days adrift in the Pacific. With no maps, compass, or navigational instruments, & rations for only three days, they used every survival technique they could as they battled 20-foot waves, marauding sharks, thirst, starvation, & exhaustion. ...

The intrepid Oxford don, explorer & author of Going to Extremes is back, & he's set himself a challenge to cope with the worst that nature can throw at him in Surviving Extremes. Travelling to four of the most extreme natural environments: swamps, deserts, jungles & arctic wastelands, the question is, can he pick up enough tips from the indigenous people to hack it at the very edge of human existence, or will his mid latitude sensibilities forever let him down? This is Nick's account of how he had to put his body & mind to the test in a unique survival experiment. Praise for Going to Extremes: 'A brilliant read...that illustrated the strong will & determination of man in the face of everything that nature had to throw at us' Wanderlust ' Loveably insane Oxford geography professor Nick Middleton...has something of the amateur Victorian explorer about him...a compelling & hilarious look at one of man's lunatic obsessions' The Sunday Times ...

Just one month after his twenty-first birthday, Peter Rudiak-Gould moved to Ujae, a remote atoll in the Marshall Islands located 70 miles from the nearest telephone, car, store, or tourist & 2000 miles from the closest continent. He spent the next year there, living among its 450 inhabitants & teaching English to its schoolchildren. At first glance, Surviving Paradise is a thoughtful & laugh-out-loud hilarious documentation of Rudiak-Gould's efforts to cope with daily life on Ujae as his idealistic expectations of a tropical paradise confront harsh reality. But Rudiak-Gould goes beyond the personal, interweaving his own story with fascinating political, linguistic & ecological digressions about the Marshall Islands. Most poignant are his observations of the noticeable effect of global warming on these tiny, low-lying islands & the threat rising water levels pose to their already precarious existence. ...

Climate change, killer asteroids or President Palin
- how will the world end? & what exactly can we do about it? The Rough Guide
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Survivor on the River Kwai is the heartbreaking story of Reg Twigg, one of the last men standing from a forgotten war. Called up in 1940, Reg expected to be fighting Germans. Instead, he found himself caught up in the worst military defeat in modern British history
- the fall of Singapore to the Japanese. What followed were three years of hell, moving from one camp to another along the Kwai river, building the infamous Burma railway for the all-conquering Japanese Imperial Army. Some prisoners coped with the endless brutality of the code of Bushido by turning to God; others clung to whatever was left of the regimental structure. Reg made the deadly jungle, with its malaria, cholera, swollen rivers, lethal snakes & exhausting heat, work for him. With an ingenuity that is astonishing, he trapped & ate lizards, harvested pumpkins from the canteen rubbish heap & with his homemade razor became camp barber. That Reg survived is testimony to his own courage & determination, his will to beat the alien brutality of camp guards who had nothing but contempt for him & his fellow POWs. He was a risk taker whose survival strategies sometimes bordered on genius. Reg's story is unique. Reg Twigg was born at Wigston (Leicester) barracks on 16 December 1913, just a few months before the outbreak of the First World War. After the war Reg worked as a warehouseman until retirement, cycling twenty miles daily to Leicester. He still lives in Leicester, & with his family he visited the sites of the POW camps in Thailand in 2006.
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Winner of the Best Book With Facts Blue Peter Book Award 2017 Beautifully presented in a large, paperback format, & fully illustrated in colour throughout, this wonderful anthology is a treat for all the family. Be shocked & amazed by these incredible real-life stories of extreme survival, including... The Man Who Sucked Blood from a Shark, a sailor who survived for 133 days on a raft in the Atlantic when his ship was torpedoed, using shark`s blood in place of fresh water. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, a teenager who fell 2 miles from an aeroplane & trekked through the Amazon jungle to safety. The Woman Who Froze to Death
- Yet Lived, a woman who was trapped under freezing water for so long her heart stopped. Four hours later, medics managed to warm her blood enough to revive her. Combining classic tales such as Ernest Shackleton`s Antarctic voyage, as well as more modern exploits such as the adventurer who inspired the movie 127 Hours, these astonishing stories will be retold by young readers to all of their friends.
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Rebecca West`s never-before-published ` Survivors in Mexico` brings to readers a work by a major 20thh-century author. An exhilarating exploration of Mexican history, religion, art & culture, it explores the inner lives of figures ranging from Corres & Montezuma to Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo & Leon Trotsky. ...

Susa, Chisone & Germanasca Valleys, with coverage including Sestiere, Sauze d` Oulx & Bardonecia, in a series of contoured hiking maps at 1:50, 000 with local trails, long-distance footpaths, mountain accommodation, etc. from the Turin based Istituto Geografico Centrale. Maps in this series have contours at 50m intervals, enhanced by shading & graphic relief. An overprint highlights local footpaths & long-distance routes, including the GTA (Grande Traversata delle Alpi), Via Alpina, Tour Monte Rosa, & Alta Via del Monti Liguri
- the high level route along the Ligurian Alps. Difficult sections of the routes & the Via Ferrata passages are indicated. New editions now also include an overprint highlighting cycling routes, where indicated in the map’s individual description. The maps also show various types of alpine accommodation: refuges, shelters, hostels, campsites, etc. Cable car lines, chair lifts, & mountain railways are marked, as well as, for road users, entry restrictions on local tracks. Each map covers Approx. 50 x 40 km / 30 x 25 miles. The maps have no geographical coordinates. Map legend

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Susa, Chisone & Germanasca Valleys, map no. 1, in a series contoured hiking maps at 1:50, 000 with local trails, long-distance footpaths, mountain accommodation, etc. from the Turin based Istituto Geografico Centrale covering the Italian Alps & Piedmont, the lakes & northern Lombardy, & the Italian Riviera. The maps have contours at 50m intervals, enhanced by shading & graphic relief. An overprint highlights local footpaths & long-distance routes, including the GTA (Grande Traversata delle Alpi), Via Alpina, Tour Monte Rosa, & Alta Via del Monti Liguri
- the high level route along the Ligurian Alps. Difficult sections of the routes & the Via Ferrata passages are indicated. New editions now also include an overprint highlighting cycling routes, where indicated in the map
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Map No. 10112, Susendalen, in the new topographic survey of Norway at 1:50, 000 covering the country on 195 double-sided sheets & first published by Nordeca in 2011
- 2012; fully GPS compatible, indicating waymarked footpaths, campsites, tourist huts, illuminated ski runs, etc. The maps, now published by Nordeca, the successors to Statens Kartverk & its subsequent owners the Ugland Group, are printed on light, waterproof & tear-resistant synthetic paper. Each map covers an area of 62x 45 kilometres (39 x 28 miles approx.), with a 2-km overlap between the sheets. The maps have contours at 20m intervals (10m glacier contours), plus colouring & graphics to show cultivated areas, bogs, forests, etc. In addition to all the information expected of topographic mapping at this scale the maps distinguish between waymarked & unmarked footpaths & show campsites, tourist huts (serviced/self service/no supplies), country hotels & restaurants, & illuminated ski trails. The series uses EUREF89 (WGS84) datum & the maps have a 1-km UTM grid. Map legend is in Norwegian & English. Each title comes in a sturdy protective card envelope.
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