The Robertsons’ strong determination shines through the pages of this extraordinary book which describes movingly their daily hopes and fears, crises and triumphs, tensions and heartbreaks.Ĭhampion’s Story (A Great Human Triumph) – Bob Champion with Jonathan Powell For 37 days–using every technique of survival–they battled against 20-foot waves, marauding sharks, thirst, starvation, and exhaustion, adrift in the vast reaches of the Pacific before their ordeal was ended by a Japanese fishing boat. After their raft sank under them, they crammed themselves into their tiny dinghy. They had emergency rations for only three days and no maps, compass, or instruments of any kind. In an inflatable rubber raft, with a 9-foot fiberglass dinghy to tow it, Dougal Robertson and his family were miles from any shipping lanes. In June 1972, the 43-foot schooner Lucette was attacked by killer whales and sank in 60 seconds. Survive The Savage Sea – Dougal Robertson Minney’s stirring historical narrative was the basis for the classic 1959 film starring Virginia Mckenna and Paul Scofield “Violette’s bravery and spirit shine throughout” this arresting true story of a heroic woman, undaunted by her missions, or the reality of the fate that would most likely await her in the closing years of war. Violette Szabo was about to make history. Her task was to coordinate the work of the French Resistance in the first days after D-Day. Then, on June 7, 1944, Szabo parachuted into Limoges. Trained in secret in the Scottish Highlands, Violette became an expert in fieldcraft, covert navigation, and weapons and demolition. The purpose of the SOE was to conduct sabotage and espionage and to aid local resistance movements in occupied Europe. To Violette’s surprise, the opportunity came at the request of Britain’s Special Organization Executive. His death only made the resilient young widow more determined than ever to join England’s war effort in World War II. Switchboard operator and volunteer for the Women’s Land Army, Violette Szabo was only twenty-two years old when her husband, Etienne, a captain in the French Foreign Legion, died at El Alamein. She is most famous for the rescue of 100 homeless children which she led in an epic journey across the wild mountains to safety during the war with Japan. She quelled a prison riot she rescued a child from a child dealer she converted the exalted Mandarin of the district to Christianity. Her life became a series of dramatic events. And so, in 1930, equipped with her railroad tickets, her Bible, ninepence in coin, and two one-pound traveler’s checks, she traveled alone across Siberia - and her amazing adventures began. Despite the fact that she was unable to obtain organizational backing because of her lack of education, she was determined to reach her goal without the help of anyone. This is the true story of Gladys Aylward, a London parlormaid who dreamed of going to China as a missionary. In Endurance, the definitive account of Ernest Shackleton’s fateful trip, Alfred Lansing brilliantly narrates the harrowing and miraculous voyage that has defined heroism for the modern age. When their ship was finally crushed between two ice floes, they attempted a near-impossible journey over 850 miles of the South Atlantic’s heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. Thus began the legendary ordeal of Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men. In January 1915, after battling its way through a thousand miles of pack ice and only a day’s sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. In August 1914, polar explorer Ernest Shackleton boarded the Endurance and set sail for Antarctica, where he planned to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. Endurance (Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage) – Alfred Lansing
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