Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Adventure, Danger and Survival

Yossi Ghinsberg

Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival

Dean King

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Aron Ralston

Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

Joan Druett

Erebus: The Story of a Ship

Michael Palin

Under a Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894

Daniel James Brown

Into Thin Air

Jon Krakauer

The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride

Daniel James Brown

The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

John Vaillant

Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors

Piers Paul Read

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex

Nathaniel Philbrick

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

Sebastian Junger

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage

Alfred Lansing

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl

Timothy Egan