The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom by Slavomir Rawicz by Slavomir Rawicz He didn’t even have a red-nosed reindeer to light his way.

Everybody lived because Shackleton was a badass. For months the crew drifted northwest with their crippled boat, camping on pack ice and eventually leaving the ship altogether, then traversing ice floes and hunting seal and other odd sea creatures for survival until they could find their way back to civilization. But in 1914 he set off in his ironically-named ship, the Endurance, which promptly became locked in ice, and ultimately crushed. Why? I don’t know it sounds like a terrible idea. For the rest of their lives, they left camel’s milk and cookies out for Santa.Įndurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage by Alfred LansingĮrnest Shackleton wanted to cross Antarctica on foot.

After suffering dehydration, near starvation, and living off of the occasional oasis and camel milk, they were eventually rescued. Cleverly, the sailors managed to persuade their abductors that, as kidnapped Americans, their survival would fetch a handsome ransom, and they convinced the tribes to take them to the nearest city where they could contact a consulate and arrange for the transfer of buckets of ducats. Looking for a happier ending than dudes getting eaten by their crew mates? Then this story of the Connecticut merchant brig Commerce could be for you! In 1815, the ship wrecked off the coast of Africa and its officers and crew were kidnapped by bands of nomadic tribes in the Sahara desert. Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival by Dean King

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