Further Readings from The Edge

Books on Ernest Shackleton

Alexander, Caroline. The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.

Armstrong, Jennifer. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World: The Extraordinary True Story of Shackleton and the Endurance. New York: Crown, 1998.

Fisher, Margery, and James Fisher. Shackleton and the Antarctic. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958.

Huntford, Roland. Shackleton. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1999.

Lansing, Alfred. Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1998.

McCurdy, Michael. Trapped by the Ice! Shackleton’s Amazing Antarctic Adventure. New York: Walker, 1997.

Ralling, Christopher. Shackleton, Greatest of All British Polar Explorers. London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1985.

Shackleton, Ernest. South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1999.

Shackleton, Sir Ernest. South: The Story of Shackleton’s Last Expedition, 1914–1917, ed. Peter King. North Pomfret: Trafalgar Square, 1992.

Worsley, F. A. Endurance: An Epic of Polar Adventure. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999.

Worsley, F. A. Shackleton’s Boat Journey. New York: W. W. Norton, 1977.

Other Survival Accounts

Adams, David, with Caroline Adams. Chasing Liquid Mountains: Adventures of a Solo Yachtsman. Sydney: Macmillan, 1997.

Ambrose, Stephen E. Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.

Amundsen, Roald. The South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the “Fram,” 1910–12 (1913; reproduced with introduction by Roland Huntford, New York: Cooper Square Press, 2001).

Bailey, Maurice, and Maralyn Bailey. 117 Days Adrift. Dobbs Ferry, NY: Sheridan House, 1992.

Bickel, Lennard. Mawson’s Will. New York: Avon, 1978.

Boukreev, Anatoli, and G. Weston DeWalt. The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997.

Bradley, James, with Ron Powers. Flags of Our Fathers. New York: Bantam Books, 2000.

Byrd, Admiral Richard E. Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure. New York: Kodansha International, 1995.

Callahan, Steven. Adrift: Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea. New York: Ballantine, 1987.

Caputo, Philip. A Rumor of War. London: Arrow Books Ltd., 1981.

Cherry-Garrard, Apsley. The Worst Journey in the World. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1997.

Dugard, Martin. Knockdown: The Harrowing True Account of a Yacht Race Turned Deadly. New York: Pocket Books, 1999.

Franklin, Jonathan. 33 Men: Inside the Miraculous Survival and Dramatic Rescue of the Chilean Miners. New York: Penguin Books, 2011.

Fredston, Jill. Snowstruck: In the Grip of Avalanches. Orlando, FL: Harcourt Books, 2005.

Gonzales, Laurence. Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why, True Stories of Miraculous Endurance and Sudden Death. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003.

Hayhurst, Jim Sr. The Right Mountain: Lessons from Everest on the Real Meaning of Success. Toronto: John Wiley & Sons, 1996.

Henderson, Bruce. Fatal North: Adventure and Survival Aboard USS Polaris, the First U.S. Expedition to the North Pole. New York: New American Library, 2001.

Herzog, Maurice. Annapurna. North Salem, NY: The Adventure Library, 1995.

Heyerdahl, Thor. Kon-Tiki. New York: Washington Square Press, 1973.

Howarth, David. The Sledge Patrol: A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival, and Victory. New York: The Lyons Press, 2001.

Huntford, Roland. The Last Place on Earth. New York: Atheneum, 1985.

Junger, Sebastian. The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997.

Kamler, Kenneth. Surviving the Extremes: A Doctor’s Journey to the Limits of Human Endurance. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004.

Keith, Agnes. Three Came Home: A Mother’s Ordeal in a Japanese Prison Camp. London: Eland, 2002.

Kiley, Deborah Scaling, and Meg Noonan. Albatross: The True Story of a Woman’s Survival at Sea. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1994.

Kirschke, James. Not Going Home Alone: A Marine’s Story. New York: Ballantine Books, 2001.

Klaben, Helen, with Beth Day. Hey, I’m Alive! New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.

Knecht, G. Bruce. The Proving Ground. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2002.

Kocour, Ruth Anne, with Michael Hodgson. Facing the Extreme: One Woman’s Story of True Courage, Death-Defying Survival, and Her Quest for the Summit. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.

Kolditz, Thomas. In Extremis Leadership: Leading As If Your Life Depended on It. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007.

Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster. New York: Villard, 1997.

Kranz, Gene. Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.

Kuhne, Cecil, ed. Near Death on the High Seas: True Stories of Disaster and Survival. New York: Vintage Books, 2008.

Leighton, Kim. A Hard Chance: The Sydney Hobart Disaster. Minocqua, WI: Willow Creek Press, 1999.

Leslie, Edward E. Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls: True Stories of Cast-aways and Other Survivors. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988.

Lewis, Cam, with Michael Levitt. Around the World in 79 Days. Lincolnville, ME: Team Adventure Press, 2001.

Maclean, Norman. Young Men and Fire: A True Story of the Mann Gulch Fire. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992.

McKinlay, William Laird. Karluk: The Great Untold Story of Arctic Exploration. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1977.

Millard, Candice. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey. New York: Doubleday, 2005.

Mitchell, Richard G., Jr. Mountain Experience: The Psychology and Sociology of Adventure. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1985.

Moore, Lt. Gen. Harold (Ret.) and Joseph Galloway. We Were Soldiers Once … and Young. New York: Harper Torch, 2002.

Mundle, Rob. Fatal Storm: The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart Race. Sydney: International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 1999.

Nalepka, James, and Steven Callahan. Capsized: The True Story of Four Men Adrift for 119 Days. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.

O’Neill, Helen. Life Without Limits: The Remarkable Story of David Pescud and His Fight for Survival in a Sea of Words. Sydney: Bantam Books, 2003.

Philbrick, Nathaniel. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. New York: The Penguin Group, 2000.

Potterfield, Peter. In the Zone: Epic Survival Stories from the Mountaineering World. Seattle, WA: The Mountaineers, 1996.

Read, Piers Paul. Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors. New York: Avon Books, 1975.

Robertson, Dougal. Survive the Savage Sea. New York: Sheridan House, 1994.

Rousmaniere, John. After the Storm: True Stories of Disaster and Recovery at Sea. New York: International Marine/McGraw Hill, 2004.

Rousmaniere, John. Fastnet, Force 10: The Deadliest Storm in the History of Modern Sailing. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2000.

Sides, Hampton. Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II’s Greatest Rescue Mission. New York: Anchor Books, 2001.

Simon, Alvah. North to the Night: A Spiritual Odyssey in the Arctic. New York: Broadway Books, 1998.

Simpson, Joe. Touching the Void: The Harrowing First-Person Account of One Man’s Miraculous Survival. New York: Harper Row, 1990.

Steger, Will, and Jon Bowermaster. Crossing Antarctica. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.

Stewart, George R. Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1988.

Trumbull, Robert. The Raft: The Courageous Story of Three Naval Airmen Against the Sea. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1992.

Useem, Michael. Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All. New York: Three Rivers Press, 1998.

Walters, Humphrey, Peter Mackie, Rosie Mackie, and Andrea Bacon. Global Challenge: Leadership Lessons from “The World’s Toughest Yacht Race.” Sussex, England: The Book Guild, 1997.

Whitmont, Debbie. An Extreme Event: The Compelling, True Story of the Tragic 1998 Sydney-Hobart Race. Sydney: Random House Australia, 1999.

Willis, Clint, ed. Rough Water: Stories of Survival from the Sea. New York: Adrenaline, 1999.