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Alive! : extraordinary stories of ordinary people who survived deadly tornadoes, avalanches, shipwrecks and more!

Title
Alive! : extraordinary stories of ordinary people who survived deadly tornadoes, avalanches, shipwrecks and more! / editors of Reader's Digest.
Publication
New York : Readers Digest Association, Inc., [2014]

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Reader's Digest Association.
Description
216 pages; 20 cm
Summary
  • "Alive! is a heart-stopping collection of survival stories from the archives of Reader's Digest's 'Drama in Real Life' series. Readers will be on the edge of their seats as they are drawn into the dramatic tales of everyday people suddenly cast into life or death situations. Editors have mined the Reader's Digest archives to bring readers Alive! Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary People Who Survived Deadly Tornadoes, Avalanches, Shipwrecks and More. In "Super Storm," Rick Gregory, an off-duty patrolman watches an F3 tornado ravage his small Tennessee town where split-second decisions make the difference between life and death. In "Avalanche!" Luke Edgar, a young father and backcountry snowboarder goes out with a buddy for a fun day on Mt. Rainier and gets buried alive in an avalanche. "Swarm," tells the story of the Walker family, out for a day trip in the Florida marsh when they get entangled in a yellow-jacket nest. The mother, Debbie, fighting anaphylactic shock must leave her injured husband and children in order to find help as time runs out. Adventure writer Tim Cahill recounts how he barely survives the extreme heat of Death Valley despite his experience as an outdoorsman in "Across the Valley of Fire"; and in "Pacific Cyclone," Tony Farrington tells the harrowing story of the crews of three sailboats who run into an unimaginable storm in the normally calm South Pacific. Whether out on a planned adventure or simply in the wrong place at the wrong time, the heroes of these stories are connected by their fierce desire to survive against all odds. Wildfires, blizzards, attacks by grizzlies, jet crashes in the jungle, are just some of the conditions people face in these stories of survival. Readers will be on the edge of their seats as they follow adventurers and laymen alike as they face down nature's fury in the most extreme circumstances, and find strength they didn't know they had, proving the depth and resilience of the human spirit. As Tim Cahill so elegantly puts it, "Then I knew, really knew, that there is a way to get from one extreme to the other, the peaks and valleys. And there is a beauty so fierce only savage emotions like fear and triumph allow us to see it.""--
  • "Alive! is a heart-stopping collection of survival stories from the archives of Reader's Digest's 'Drama in Real Life' series"--
Subject
  • Disasters > Literary collections
  • Disaster victims > Literary collections
  • LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
  • NATURE / Natural Disasters
  • Disaster victims
  • Disasters
Genre/Form
Literary collections.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Call Number
JFD 15-2021
ISBN
  • 9781621451617 (hardback)
  • 1621451615 (hardback)
  • 9781621451877 (pbk.)
  • 1621451879 (pbk.)
  • 9781621451624 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2013046437
OCLC
858896558
Title
Alive! : extraordinary stories of ordinary people who survived deadly tornadoes, avalanches, shipwrecks and more! / editors of Reader's Digest.
Publisher
New York : Readers Digest Association, Inc., [2014]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author
Reader's Digest Association.
Research Call Number
JFD 15-2021
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