Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson – this one isn’t strictly a survival story but it is tense in the same way and deals with an incredibly unlikely and dangerous underwater exploration of a German U-boat discovered off the coast of New Jersey. I really loved it.
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The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. He was a member of Scott’s South Pole Expedition. He chronicles his journey and an insane side trip to gather emperor penguin eggs in the dead of Antarctic winter.
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The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible by John Geiger.
When I Fell from the Sky by Julianne Koepcke.
Blecher_onthe_Hudson on
Lost at sea stories are a genre unto themselves. Off the top of my head:
– The Raft
– Survive the Savage Sea
– Adrift
– A Marriage at Sea
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The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown. It’s about the Donner Party. I cannot recommend this book enough!
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Endurance by Alfred Lansing
Into the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Between Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston
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Frozen in Time by Mitchell Zuckoff
Island of the Lost by Joan Druett
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I second Touching the Void if you do in fact want the survival part.
Into Thin Air which others are recommending is good but there’s a lot of death in it.
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We Die Alone: a WWII Epic of Escape & Endurance by David Howarth.
The story is about a Norwegian resistance fighter named Jan Baalsrud, who is sent in with a group after training in the UK to Nazi occupied northern Norway where they get ambushed. Jan is the sole survivor, and he escapes into the arctic winter and treks across the mountains into Sweden, fighting through avalanches, frostbite, etc to survive.
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“Empire of Ice And Stone” by Buddy Levy. A truly *AMAZING* story
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Into Thin Air, about the 1996 Everest Disaster
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Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson – this one isn’t strictly a survival story but it is tense in the same way and deals with an incredibly unlikely and dangerous underwater exploration of a German U-boat discovered off the coast of New Jersey. I really loved it.
The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard. He was a member of Scott’s South Pole Expedition. He chronicles his journey and an insane side trip to gather emperor penguin eggs in the dead of Antarctic winter.
The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible by John Geiger.
When I Fell from the Sky by Julianne Koepcke.
Lost at sea stories are a genre unto themselves. Off the top of my head:
– The Raft
– Survive the Savage Sea
– Adrift
– A Marriage at Sea
The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown. It’s about the Donner Party. I cannot recommend this book enough!
Endurance by Alfred Lansing
Into the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
Touching the Void by Joe Simpson
Between Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston
Frozen in Time by Mitchell Zuckoff
Island of the Lost by Joan Druett
I second Touching the Void if you do in fact want the survival part.
Into Thin Air which others are recommending is good but there’s a lot of death in it.
We Die Alone: a WWII Epic of Escape & Endurance by David Howarth.
The story is about a Norwegian resistance fighter named Jan Baalsrud, who is sent in with a group after training in the UK to Nazi occupied northern Norway where they get ambushed. Jan is the sole survivor, and he escapes into the arctic winter and treks across the mountains into Sweden, fighting through avalanches, frostbite, etc to survive.
“Empire of Ice And Stone” by Buddy Levy. A truly *AMAZING* story