survival (after accidents, etc.)

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survival (after accidents, etc.)

Crash in the wilderness

1980
Relates the 10-mile journey to safety of the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Escape from the island of ice

1980
Describes the 800-mile sea journey in a 20-foot boat made by Sir Ernest Shackleton and 5 other men in order to seek help for the stranded companions of their Antarctic expedition.

Quimble Wood

1981
Four quimbles, each no bigger than a little finger, fall out of a car in a forest where they must learn to fend for themselves quickly since winter is not far off.

Downwind

1984
After fleeing their California home to escape a possible radiation leak from a nuclear power plant, twelve-year-old Ephraim and his family find themselves caught up in circumstances perhaps even more threatening to them.

Robinson Crusoe

1984
A simple retelling of the tale in which an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.

Hugh Glass, mountain man

1990
A fictionalized biography of the legendary hero of the Old West, who as a fur trapper in 1823, survived an attack by a grizzly bear.

Forty days lost

1979
Seven men en route by air from iron mines in northern Quebec make an emergency landing in wild bush country and attempt to keep themselves alive for 40 days.

Save Queen of Sheba

1981
After miraculously surviving a Sioux Indian raid on the trail to Oregon, a brother and sister set out with few provisions to find the rest of the settlers.

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