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Insane! A Must-Read At Least Once: The Most Resilient People in History
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items Features the jaw-dropping true stories of extraordinary individuals who survived the most brutal conditions
It tracks Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew as their ship gets crushed by Antarctic ice, forcing them to survive for almost two years in sub-zero temperatures!
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Abridged)
Written by a psychiatrist who survived the horrors of Nazi concentration camps
Man's Search for Meaning
An Olympic runner who survived a plane crash in the Pacific, drifted for 47 days in a raft, and endured years of brutal torture in a POW camp
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
The firsthand account of a Navy SEAL who was the only survivor of Operation Red Wings in the mountains of Afghanistan!
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
A deeply firsthand memoir of a teenage boy surviving Auschwitz - the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp during World War II.
Night - by Elie Wiesel
After a disastrous accident in The Andes, one climber is left for dead inside a deep ice crevasse and one another must crawl back to base camp with a shattered leg
Touching the Void: The True Story of One Man's Miraculous Survival
walked over 4,000 miles on foot through the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas to reach freedom. A monument to human endurance."
The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom - by Slavomir Rawicz
The epic story of the Bataan Death March survivors and the dangerous rescue mission to save them
Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission
The shocking true story of a canyon hiker whose right arm got trapped by a boulder for six days
127 Hours: Between a Rock and a Hard Place (by Aron Ralston)
After losing the presidency, Theodore Roosevelt went on a dangerous expedition into the uncharted Amazon jungle. Facing disease, starvation, and native attacks
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
One of the greatest escape and survival stories ever written. Henri Charrière tracks his thrilling and dangerous attempts
Papillon - by Henri Charriere
a brutal true story of frontiersman Hugh Glass in 1823. After being mauled by a Grizzly bear and left for dead by his companions
The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge (byMichael Punke)
The miraculous true story of a man who was losing his hand , and left for dead twice on Mount Everest during the infamous 1996 storm
Beck Weathers' Miraculous Survival on Everest
A gripping memoir of Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated 1910 Antarctic expedition, capturing the unimaginable physical suffering
The Worst Journey in the World - by Cherry Garrard
the best for you to fight this life!
Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living