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The title says it all! 76 days lost at sea -- no food, sharks, and isolation. This is survival extreme.

Shackleton's ship, The Endurance, is crushed in the ever-thickening ice of the Antartic and he and his crew take to the frozen barren land this well-known harrowing tale.

It's man versus whale in the story of the whaling vessel that inspired Herman Melville's Moby Dick.

Since Roald Amundsen completed the first successful crossing of the fabled Northwest Passage in 1906, only twenty-four pleasure craft have followed in his wake. Theobald embarked on a journey from his home port of Newport, Rhode Island,through the Passage and around Alaska to Seattle - an 8,500-mile trek filled with constant danger from ice, polar bears,and severe weather.

Adventure is never far from our 26th president, Theodore Roosevelt, but this time maybe even he had more than he could handle.

You'll be gasping for air as you follow these men into the depths of the sea.

One woman, two shipwrecks, and a lot of luck.

Here's the shivering story of the doomed expedition of the Polaris - the U.S.'s first attempt at a Northwest Passage.

The unforgettable story of the Uruguayan rugby team that survive a plane crash and find themselves stranded in the Andes.

The book behind the movie '127 hours'. A young man slowly saws off his own arm when after it is pinned beneath an 800lb boulder.

In August 2008, when eleven climbers lost their lives on K2, the world's most dangerous peak, two Sherpas survived. They had emerged from poverty and political turmoil to become two of the most skillful mountaineers on earth.

Chris McCandless drops out of society to live in the backwoods of Alaska in an abandoned bus. He doesn't survive and this book is Krakauer's attempt to see what went wrong.

Once you reach the top of the world anything can happen. Krakauer delves into what really did happen an ill-fated day in 1996

Danger abounds as author Grann follows in the footsteps of an explorer gone missing in 1925 looking for a legendary lost city.

The title says it all!

On a snake hunting trip deep in the jungles of Burma, herpetologist Joe Slowinski makes a fatal mistake.

A riveting account of one man’s history-making journey along the entire length of the Amazon—and through the most bio-diverse habitat on Earth.

A laugh-out-loud fish-out-of water tale of a 19-year old Australian who finds himself as a safari guide in Botswana.

A powerful, blazingly honest, inspiring memoir: the story of a 1,100 mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe--and built her back up again.

You'll never look at a tree the same again once you join this band of tree scientists and rogues in the otherworldy tops of giant trees.

TV's Survivorman recounts inspiring stories of survival and courage.

Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, and of pilgrimage and ritual.

Only four men survived the plane crash. The pilot. A politician. A cop... and the criminal he was shackled to. On an icy night in October 1984, a commuter plane carrying nine passengers crashed in the remote wilderness of northern Alberta, killing six people. 4 Survived.

Trapped deep underground for more than nine weeks, 33 men gripped the nation as the world struggled to get them out alive.

This book is deep, really deep. Find out what happens when you lose your only source of light when you're deep down underground.

Stranded deep in a jungle full of cannibalistic tribes, three airplane crash survivors struggle to get out alive.

Lowell and his crew on board Apollo 13 are stranded, losing oxygen and without heat after a disasterous electrical problem on their space shuttle. Nail-biting, even for those who already know the ending.

This white-knuckler recounts the nine minutes and twenty seconds that elapse from an airplane's distress until its crash into the countryside of Georgia. Nineteen people survived to tell about it.

Mogul Branson recounts the courageous and inspiring stories of the daredevils of the sky.

The Map of My Dead Pilotsis about flying, pilots, and Alaska—and, more specifically, about those pilots who take death-defying risks in the Last Frontier and sometimes pay the price.

This is Markham's account of her singular accomplishment -- being the first person to fly West to East across the Atlantic.