10 Most Insane Survival Stories

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  • 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea

    • ASIN: 1501116304
    • ISBN: 1501116304
    • Brand: Atria Books
    • Manufacturer: Atria Books

    Declared “the best survival book in a decade” by Outside Magazine, 438 Days is the true story of the man who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean.On November 17, 2012, two men left the coast of Mexico for a weekend fishing trip in the open Pacific. That night, a violent storm ambushed t... [Read More]

  • Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident (Historical Nonfiction Bestseller, True Story Book of Survival)

    • ASIN: 1452140030
    • ISBN: 1452140030
    • Brand: Chronicle
    • Size: N/A
    • Manufacturer: Chronicle Books

    A New York Times and Wall Street Journal Nonfiction Bestseller! — What happened that night on Dead Mountain?The mystery of Dead Mountain: In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known as Dead Mountain. Eerie aspects of the mountain climbing incident—unexplained violent... [Read More]

  • Tears of the Silenced: An Amish True Crime Memoir of Childhood Sexual Abuse, Brutal Betrayal, and Ultimate Survival

    • ASIN: B07FTQDN38
    • Manufacturer: Mango

    Surviving Severe Child Abuse, Sexual Assault and Leaving the Amish ChurchA gripping story that takes you on the journey of a child abuse and sexual assault survivor turned activist. Photo Gallery in the back of the book.True story of child abuse. When Misty Griffin was six years old, her family started to live and dress like the Amish. Misty and h... [Read More]

  • Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival

    • ASIN: 0545543649
    • ISBN: 0545543649
    • Brand: Arthur A Levine Books
    • Manufacturer: Arthur A. Levine Books

    Jaap Sitters was only eight years old when his mother cut the yellow stars off his clothes and sent him, alone, on a fifteen-mile walk to hide with relatives. It was a terrifying night, one he would never forget. Before the end of the war, he would hide in secret rooms and behind walls. He would suffer from hunger, sickness, and the looming threat ... [Read More]

  • The Forgotten Child: The powerful true story of a boy abandoned as a baby and left to die

    • ASIN: B07GTSK164
    • Manufacturer: HarperElement

    Based on a true story, The Forgotten Child is a heart-breaking memoir of an abandoned newborn baby left to die, his tempestuous upbringing, and how he came through the other side.It’s a freezing winter’s night in 1954. A baby boy, a few hours old, is left by his mother, wrapped in nothing but two sheets of newspaper and hidden amongst the under... [Read More]

  • Born Survivors: Three Young Mothers and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage, Defiance, and Hope

    • ASIN: B00NVLNZ8Y
    • Manufacturer: Harper

    The Nazis murdered their husbands but concentration camp prisoners Priska, Rachel, and Anka would not let evil take their unborn children too—a remarkable true story that will appeal to readers of The Lost and The Nazi Officer’s Wife, Born Survivors celebrates three mothers who defied death to give their children life.Eastern Europe, 1944: Thre... [Read More]

  • Etched in Sand: A True Story of Five Siblings Who Survived an Unspeakable Childhood on Long Island

    • ASIN: B009NG18Z8
    • Brand: William Morrow Paperbacks
    • Manufacturer: William Morrow Paperbacks

    Regina’s Calcaterra memoir, Etched in Sand, is an inspiring and triumphant coming-of-age story of tenacity and hope. Regina Calcaterra is a successful lawyer, New York State official, and activist. Her painful early life, however, was quite different. Regina and her four siblings survived an abusive and painful childhood only to find themselves ... [Read More]

  • Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man

    • ASIN: 1501135945
    • ISBN: 1501135945
    • Brand: Simon & Schuster
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

  • The Best Survival Stories Ever Told (Best Stories Ever Told)

    • ASIN: B00CKXW2SS
    • Manufacturer: Skyhorse Publishing

    True tales of danger and adventure on land, sea, and air—from the Arctic to the Amazon rain forest.   This collection of classic tales comprises more than thirty accounts of true-life adventure taken from historical memoirs, letters, and journals. They span the modern age of exploration, through the nineteenth century, and to the end of the twen... [Read More]

  • 3,096 Days in Captivity: The True Story of My Abduction, Eight Years of Enslavement, and Escape

    • ASIN: 0425244288
    • ISBN: 0425244288
    • Manufacturer: Berkley

    On March 2, 1998, ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was kidnapped, and found herself locked in a house that would be her home for the next eight years. She was starved, beaten, treated as a slave, and forced to work for her deranged captor. But she never forgot who she was-and she never gave up hope of returning to the world. This is her story.... [Read More]

  • Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival

    • ASIN: 0316159352
    • ISBN: 0316159352
    • Brand: King, Dean
    • Manufacturer: Back Bay Books

    A masterpiece of historical adventure, Skeletons on the Zahara chronicles the true story of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected to a hellish two-month journey through the perilous heart of the Sahara.The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate ... [Read More]

  • The Impossible Rescue: The True Story of an Amazing Arctic Adventure

    • ASIN: 0763670936
    • ISBN: 0763670936
    • Manufacturer: Candlewick

    The dead of an Arctic winter. Whaling ships full of men, stranded in ice. Follow three rescuers in a race against time — and all odds — in this heartpounding true adventure.In 1897, whaling in the Arctic waters off Alaska’s coast was as dangerous as it was lucrative. And in that particular year, winter blasted early, bringing storms and ice p... [Read More]

  • Two Bobbies: A True Story of Hurricane Katrina, Friendship, and Survival

    • ASIN: 0802797547
    • ISBN: 0802797547
    • Brand: Walker Childrens
    • Manufacturer: Bloomsbury USA Childrens

    from Newbery award winning author Kirby Larson comes a remarkable true story of the devotion, friendship, and survival of two pets left behind in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. In the tradition of Owen and Mzee, this beautiful picture book is a testament to the spirit that defined post-Katrina rescue missions. During Hurricane Katrina, evacuating N... [Read More]

  • Educated: A Memoir

    • ASIN: B072BLVM83
    • Manufacturer: Random House

  • Red Sky in Mourning: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival at Sea

    • UPC: 884570920049
    • ASIN: 0786886765
    • ISBN: 0786886765
    • Brand: Brand: Hyperion
    • Manufacturer: Hachette Books

    New available in paperback, a true-life adventure story with everything: page-turning suspense, remarkable acts of courage, wrenching despair, and a triumphant, life-affirming ending.Red Sky in Mourning is the story of Tami Oldham Ashcraft's 41-day journey to safety, which she survived through fortitude and sheer strength of character. Interspersed... [Read More]

  • Ada Blackjack: A True Story of Survival in the Arctic

    • UPC: 884868749932
    • ASIN: 078688746X
    • ISBN: 078688746X
    • Manufacturer: Hachette Books

    Now in paperback, the gripping and inspiring tale of a woman's survival alone in the Arctic.In 1921, four men and one woman ventured deep into the Arctic. Two years later, only one returned.When 23-year-old Inuit Ada Blackjack signed on as a seamstress for a top-secret Arctic expedition, her goal was simple: earn money and find a husband. But her t... [Read More]

  • Fugitive Pieces

    • ASIN: B01L8YB3DE

  • The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

    • ASIN: 1101911530
    • ISBN: 9781101911532
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    A National Geographic Best Book of the Year National BestsellerMany people dream of escaping modern life. Most will never act on it—but in 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight did just that when he left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the woods. He would not have a conversation with another person for the next... [Read More]

  • The Girl in the Sand: A Gripping Serial Killer Thriller (Violet Darger FBI Thriller Book 3)

    • ASIN: B07BLJYCY3
    • Manufacturer: Smarmy Press

    Shallow graves scar the desert landscape. A cemetery in the sand. Some of the lost are never found.Thousands of girls go missing every year in Las Vegas. Taken. Bought and sold. Or worse.And now the dead are calling.These lost girls summon FBI Profiler Violet Darger to Sin City -- a new case. There are fresh dead to sort through -- two bodies burne... [Read More]

  • First One In, Last One Out: Auschwitz Survivor 31321

    • ASIN: 1533305498
    • ISBN: 1533305498
    • Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

    While growing up in New York, Marilyn Shimon often visited her uncle in California. She saw his scars, gaped at his “31321” tattoo, and listened to his horrific stories of the Holocaust. However, she could not relate to the suffering he endured or understand the significance of his accounts—until now. In this grisly memoir, Marilyn resurrects... [Read More]

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