True tales of adventure and survival

This list contains 33 titles

Book A walk in the woods : rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail / Bill Bryson.

by Bryson, Bill.

Edition: 1st ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : Broadway Books, c1998Online access: Contributor biographical information | Sample text | Publisher description Availability: No items available.
Adrift : seventy-six days lost at sea / Steven Callahan ; illustrations by the author.

by Callahan, Steven.

Edition: 1st Mariner Bks. ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 910/CAL.
Book Cold : adventures in the world's frozen places / Bill Streever.

by Streever, Bill.

Edition: 1st ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : Little, Brown and Co., 2009Online access: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description Availability: No items available.
Book Deadliest sea : the untold story behind the greatest rescue in Coast Guard history / Kalee Thompson.

by Thompson, Kalee.

Edition: 1st ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York, NY : William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers, c2010Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 910.9164/THOM.
Book Disguised : a teenage girl's survival in World War II Japanese prison camps / Rita la Fontaine de Clercq Zubli.

by Clercq Zubli, Rita la Fontaine de, 1929-.

Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: Middletown, Conn. : Southfarm Press, Publisher c2001Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 940.5481/CLE .
Book Endurance : Shackleton's incredible voyage / Alfred Lansing.

by Lansing, Alfred.

Edition: 2nd Caroll & Graf ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : Caroll & Graf, 1999, c1959Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 919.8/LANSING.
Fatal Storm: the inside story of the tragic Sidney-Hobart Race./ Rob Mundle.

by Mundle, Rob, | , [] | .

Series: Edition: Material type: Text Text Publication details: New York: McGraw Hill: ; 1998Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 910.41/MUN .
Book Fatal voyage : the sinking of the USS Indianapolis / Dan Kurzman ; foreword by Harlan M. Twible.

by Kurzman, Dan.

Edition: 1st Broadway Books trade pbk. ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : Broadway Books, 2001Online access: Sample text | Publisher description Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 940.545/KUR .
Reference Frozen in time : an epic story of survival, and a modern quest for lost heroes of World War II / Mitchell Zuckoff.

by Zuckoff, Mitchell.

Edition: First edition.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York, NY : Harper, c2013Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 998.2/ZUCKOFF.
Ghost Soldiers./ The forgotten epic story of World War II's most dramatic mission. Hampton Sides.

by Sides, Hampton, | , [] | .

Series: Edition: Material type: Text Text Publication details: New York; Random House, Inc.; ; 2001Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 940.5425/SID .
Book Helmet for my pillow : from Parris Island to the Pacific : a young Marine's stirring account of combat in World War II / Robert Leckie.

by Leckie, Robert, 1920-2001.

Edition: Bantam Books trade pbk. ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : Bantam Books, 2010Availability: No items available.
Book In harm's way : the sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the extraordinary story of its survivors / Doug Stanton

by Stanton, Doug.

Edition: 1st edMaterial type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : H. Holt, 2001Online access: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Sample text Availability: No items available.
Book In the heart of the sea : the tragedy of the whaleship Essex / by Nathaniel Philbrick.

by Philbrick, Nathaniel.

Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : Viking, 2000Availability: Items available for loan: 2 . Location(s): Call number: 910.9164/PHI .
Book In the wake of madness : the murderous voyage of the whaleship Sharon / by Joan Druett

by Druett, Joan.

Edition: 1st edMaterial type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2003Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 909.09645/DRU .
Book Into thin air : a personal account of the Mount Everest disaster / Jon Krakauer.

by Krakauer, Jon.

Edition: 1st 1998 ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : Villard, c1998Availability: Not available: Checked out (1).
Lone survivor : the eyewitness account of Operation Redwing and the lost heroes of SEAL Team 10 / Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson.

by Luttrell, Marcus | Robinson, Patrick, 1939-.

Series: Thorndike Press large print nonfiction seriesEdition: Large print ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: large print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: Farmington Hills, Mich : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2014; �2007Availability: Not available: Checked out (1).
Reference Lost in Shangri-la : a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II / Mitchell Zuckoff.

by Zuckoff, Mitchell.

Edition: 1st ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : HarperCollins, c2011Other title: True story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II..Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 940.54/ZUCKOFF.
Book Man's search for meaning / Viktor E. Frankl ; part one translated by Ilse Lasch ; foreword by Harold S. Kushner ; afterword by William J. Winslade.

by Frankl, Viktor E. (Viktor Emil), 1905-1997.

Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Language: English Original language: German Publication details: Boston : Beacon Press, c2006Online access: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 940.53/FRANKL.
Book Over the edge of the world : Magellan's terrifying circumnavigation of the globe / Laurence Bergreen

by Bergreen, Laurence.

Edition: 1st edMaterial type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : Morrow, c2003Online access: Publisher description Availability: No items available.
Book Ring of fire : an Indonesian odyssey / Lawrence Blair with Lorne Blair.

by Blair, Lawrence, Dr | Blair, Lorne.

Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: Singapore : Editions Didier Millet, 2010Availability: No items available.
Reference Shackleton : Antarctic odyssey / Nick Bertozzi.

by Bertozzi, Nick [author,, illustrator.].

Edition: First edition.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Juvenile; Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: GRAPHIC/919.8904/BERT.
Book Shadow divers : the true adventure of two Americans who risked everything to solve one of the last mysteries of World War II / Robert Kurson.

by Kurson, Robert.

Edition: 1st ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : Random House, c2004Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 940.5451/KUR .
Book Shipwreck at the bottom of the world : the extraordinary true story of Shackleton and the endurance / Jennifer Armstrong.

by Armstrong, Jennifer, 1961-.

Edition: First paperback edition.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 919.8904/ARM .
Book Skeletons on the Zahara : a true story of survival / Dean King.

by King, Dean, 1962-.

Edition: 1st Back Bay pbk. ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : Back Bay Books, c2005Availability: No items available.
Book Ten hours until dawn : the true story of heroism and tragedy aboard the Can Do / Michael J.Tougias.

by Tougias, Mike, 1955-.

Edition: 1st ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : St. Martins Press, 2005Availability: No items available.
The impossible first : from fire to ice--crossing Antarctica alone / Colin O'Brady.

by O'Brady, Colin.

Edition: 1st Scribner trade pbk. ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : Scribner, 2021; �2020Other title: Impossible 1st.Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 919.8904/OBR.
Book The perfect storm : a true story of men against the sea / Sebastian Junger

by Junger, Sebastian.

Edition: First editionMaterial type: Text Text; Format: print regular print ; Literary form: Not fiction Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 974.45/JUN .
The Wager : a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder / David Grann.

by Grann, David.

Edition: 1st ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : Doubleday, 2023Availability: Not available: Checked out (1).
Book Touching the void / Joe Simpson ; with a foreword by Chris Bonington.

by Simpson, Joe, 1960-.

Edition: 1st Perennial ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: [New York] : Perennial, 2004Other title: True story of one man's miraculous survival..Online access: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description Availability: Items available for loan: 2 . Location(s): Call number: 796.5/SIM.
Book Trapped under the sea : one engineering marvel, five men, and a disaster ten miles into the darkness / Neil Swidey.

by Swidey, Neil.

Edition: First Edition.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: 363.11/SWI.
Book Unbroken : a World War II story of survival, resilience, and redemption / Laura Hillenbrand.

by Hillenbrand, Laura.

Edition: 1st ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Nature of contents: biography; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York : Random House, c2010Availability: Not available: Checked out (1).
Undaunted courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the opening of the American West / [by] Stephen E. Ambrose.

by Ambrose, Stephen E.

Material type: Text Text Publication details: New York : Simon, 1996Availability: Items available for loan: 2 . Not available: Checked out (1). Location(s): Call number: 917.8042/AMBROSE .
Where the world ends / Geraldine McCaughrean.

by McCaughrean, Geraldine.

Edition: 1st U.S. ed.Material type: Text Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Fiction ; Audience: Adolescent; Publication details: New York : Flatiron Books, 2019Availability: Items available for loan: 1 . Location(s): Call number: FIC/MCC.