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Man Against Nature: Tales of Adventure and Exploration by Charles Neider, Maurice Herzog, Frank W. Aitken, Edward Hilton, Stewart Alsop, Ralph E. Lapp, Roald Amundsen, Anonymous, Ira J. Baden, Robert H. Parnham, William Beebe, Giovanni Boccaccio, Sidney Spencer Broomfield, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Donald R. G. Cameron, Samuel Chase, Jim Corbett, Jacques Yves Cousteau, Frédéric Dumas, George Armstrong Custer, Richard Henry Dana, William M. M. Davies, Edward Ellsberg, John Grant, Samuel S. Greeley, Arthur Ray Hawkins, Luke Wesley Price, Ernest Hemingway, Herodotus, Thor Heyerdahl, Sir Edmund Hillary, Emerson Hough, Louis V. Housel, Hunter, J. A., Starr Jenkins, Jonathan Norton Leonard, Charles A. Lindbergh, C F. Meade, Francis Parkman, Robert E. Peary, Pliny the Younger, Albert Schweitzer, Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, Haroun Tazieff, Peter J. Toner, Tschiffely, A. F., Tursa, James Ramsey Ullman, James J. Wait, Orville Wright is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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483 pages 22 cm "This is a giant book of true, eye-witness stories by the world's greatest explorers. pioneers and adventurers. Collected in this volume for the first time anywhere are the classic and gripping accounts of men like Lindbergh, Edmund Hillary, Thor Heyerdahl, Jim Corbett, men who conquered mountains, fought wild animals, killed whales, battled head-hunters, braved Arctic blizzards--forty-seven extraordinary selections that contain all kinds of danger and excitement. From all time and all over the world, here is an unrivaled roster of famous names and famous exploits, packed with tension, suspense, and action. To every reader Man against Nature offers endless hours of magnificent drama and thrilling entertainment."--Jacket Adventure--the unending challenge / Maurice Herzog -- Introduction / Charles Neider -- Earthquake at San Francisco / Frank W. Aitken and Edward Hilton -- Strange death of Louis Slotin / Stewart Alsop and Ralph E. Lapp -- Voyage to the South Pole / Roald Amundsen -- The just vengeance of heaven / Anonymous -- Forty-five seconds inside a tornado / Ira J. Baden, as told to Robert H. Parham -- Descent into perpetual night / William Beebe -- The plague /

Author

Charles Neider, Maurice Herzog, Frank W. Aitken, Edward Hilton, Stewart Alsop, Ralph E. Lapp, Roald Amundsen, Anonymous, Ira J. Baden, Robert H. Parnham, William Beebe, Giovanni Boccaccio, Sidney Spencer Broomfield, Richard Evelyn Byrd, Donald R. G. Cameron, Samuel Chase, Jim Corbett, Jacques Yves Cousteau, Frédéric Dumas, George Armstrong Custer, Richard Henry Dana, William M. M. Davies, Edward Ellsberg, John Grant, Samuel S. Greeley, Arthur Ray Hawkins, Luke Wesley Price, Ernest Hemingway, Herodotus, Thor Heyerdahl, Sir Edmund Hillary, Emerson Hough, Louis V. Housel, Hunter, J. A., Starr Jenkins, Jonathan Norton Leonard, Charles A. Lindbergh, C F. Meade, Francis Parkman, Robert E. Peary, Pliny the Younger, Albert Schweitzer, Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, Haroun Tazieff, Peter J. Toner, Tschiffely, A. F., Tursa, James Ramsey Ullman, James J. Wait, Orville Wright

Publisher

New York, Harper

Published

1954

Language

EN

Subjects

Travel, Anthropology, Adventure