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In August 2008, when 11 climbers lost their lives on K2, the world's most dangerous peak, two Sherpas survived and are two of the most skillful mountaineers on earth.
From the New York Times best selling author of Evidence of Harm and Animal Factory - a ground breaking scientific thriller that exposes the dark side of SeaWorld, America's most beloved m...
In its 2001 report on global climate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change of the United Nations prominently featured the “Hockey Stick,” a chart showing global temperature data ...
Winner of the 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction. A classic account of exploration and endurance from the bestselling author of The Wayfinders. In this magisterial work of hi...
An amazing document about a baby sparrow who survived unbelievable odds when he was taken out of his nest and deprived of parental care. Instead as faith would have it, an elderly couple ...
* Extreme Survivors tells the illustrated story of sixty of the most daring escapes, famous shipwrecks, and ultimate survival stories. These are astonishing stories of human ...
A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, C...