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A Story of Passion and Daring
by Richard Preston
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by Ruth Kassinger
Published Mar 2015
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by Philip Connors
Published Feb 2012
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by Susan Casey
Published May 2011
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by Richard Fortey
Published Sep 2009
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by Lynne Cox
Published Feb 2008
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place
by Aron Ralston
Published Aug 2005
Read ReviewsA brilliantly written, funny, honest, inspiring, and downright astonishing report from the line where death meets life which will surely take its place in the annals of classic adventure stories.
by Ann Bancroft, Liv Arnesen
Published Aug 2004
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by Jon Krakauer
Published May 1998
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