The true story of three enthusiastic (but inexperienced) adventurers who attempt to become the first team to raft the entire length of the Amazon River all 4,007 miles -- and (barely) live to tell about it.

After the Napoleonic wars, John Barrow launched the most ambitious program of exploration the world has ever seen. For thirty years, he and his teams of elite naval officers scoured the globe on a mission to fill the blanks that littered the atlases of the day.

One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home.

An exhilarating, true-life adventure of one family's extraordinary sea voyage of self-discovery and survival, tragedy, and triumph.

In the 1850s, many saw the Darien wilderness in eastern Panama as the perfect spot to build a great canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Ships from three continents raced to this largely unexplored region, but the 27-man U.S. Darien Exploring Expedition got there first. Misled by faulty maps and unable to find any gap in the mountains, the explorers enduring oppressive equatorial heat and one unforeseen problem after another.

This is the story of the 1996-1997 Vendee Globe race, in which 14 men and one woman sailed around the world alone. All of the action is presented from the sailors' points of view.

Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people, a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature.

Heroism and sacrifice triumph over foolishness, fatal error, and human frailty in this bone-chilling narrative in which the author recounts his experiences on an ill-fated, deadly climb.

For 18 years, Ed Viesturs pursued climbing's holy grail: to stand atop the world's 14 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. This memoir describes his dangerous and triumphant journey.

With 17 stories from the survival story genre, this anthology includes Jack London's classic "To Build A Fire" as well as less widely-known contributions from such authors as Maurice Herzog, Diana Preston, and Slavomir Rawicz.