The greatest survival stories ever told

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 / 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.