An edition of Man against nature
(1954)
Man against nature
tales of adventure and exploration
[1st ed.].
by 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, and Charles Neider
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Man against nature: firsthand accounts of adventure and exploration
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Table of Contents
Adventure: Unending challenge / Maurice Herzog
Introduction / Charles Neider
Earthquake at San Francisco / Frank W. Aitken and Edward Hilton
Strange death of Louis Slotin / Stewart Aslop and Ralph E. Lapp
Voyage to the South Pole / Roald Amundsen
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
Plague / Giovanni Boccaccio
Head hunters of New Guinea / Sidney Spencer Broomfield
Alone / Richard E. Byrd
Lost in the Sahara / Donald R.G. Cameron
Great Lisbon earthquake / Samuel Chase
Champawat man-eater / Jim Corbett
Silent world / J.Y. Cousteau, with Frederic Dumas
Indians! / George A. Custer
Rounding the horn / Richard Henry Dana
Battle with a whale / William M. Davies
On the bottom / Edward Ellsberg
Lost in the Canadian wilderness / John Grant
Great Chicago fire / Samuel S. Greeley
Bailing out at supersonic speed / Arthur Ray Hawkins, as told to Wesley Price
Death in the afternoon / Ernest Hemingway
Bridging the Hellespont / Herodotus
Kon-Tiki / Thor Heyerdahl
To the summit of Everest / Sir Edmund Hillary
Man against Bronco / Emerson Hough
Tidal wave / Louis V. Housel
Hunting the African buffalo / J.A. Hunter
Masai Spearmen / J.A. Hunter
We jump into fire / Starr Jenkins
Rocket shoot at white sands / Jonathan Norton Leonard
New York to Paris / Charles A. Lindbergh
Attempts on the Eigerwand C.F. Meade
Buffalo chase / Francis Parkman
North Pole conquered / Robert E. Peary
Eruption of Vesuvius / Pliny the Younger
On the edge of the primeval forest / Albert Schweitzer
Last March / Robert Falcon Scott
Open boat / Sir Ernest Shackleton
Craters of fire Haroum Tazieff
Johnstown flood / Peter J. Toner
Ten thousand miles in the saddle / A.F. Tschiffely
Buzzing death / Tursa
Annapurna / James Ramsey Ullman
Waterspout in the Pacific / James J. Wait
Success at Kitty Hawk / Orville Wright.
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