Man Against Nature,9780815410409

Man Against Nature

by Neider, Charles
ISBN13: 9780815410409
ISBN10: 0815410409
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-07-01
Publisher(s): Cooper Square Pub
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Summary

The forty-five tales in Man Against Nature cover an extraordinary range of time and terrain.

Table of Contents

Adventure---The Unending Challenge xi
Maurice Herzog
Introduction xv
Charles Neider
Earthquake at San Francisco
1(7)
Frank W. Aitken
Edward Hilton
The Strange Death of Louis Slotin
8(11)
Stewart Alsop
Ralph E. Lapp
Voyage to the South Pole
19(16)
Roald Amundsen
The Just Vengeance of Heaven
35(13)
Anonymous
Forty-five Seconds Inside a Tornado
48(13)
Ira J. Baden
Descent Into Perpetual Night
61(17)
William Beebe
The Plague
78(5)
Giovanni Boccaccio
Head Hunters of New Guinea
83(5)
Sidney Spencer Broomfield
Alone
88(7)
Richard E. Byrd
Lost in the Sahara
95(19)
Donald R. G. Cameron
The Great Lisbon Earthquake
114(14)
Samuel Chase
The Champawat Man-Eater
128(22)
Jim Corbett
The Silent World
150(8)
J. Y. Cousteau
Frederic Dumas
Indians!
158(9)
George A. Custer
Rounding the Horn
167(29)
Richard Henry Dana
Battle With a Whale
196(7)
William M. Davies
On the Bottom
203(11)
Edward Ellsberg
Lost in the Canadian Wilderness
214(8)
John Grant
The Great Chicago Fire
222(7)
Samuel S. Greeley
Bailing Out at Supersonic Speed
229(10)
Arthur Ray Hawkins
Death in the Afternoon
239(8)
Ernest Hemingway
Bridging the Hellespont
247(5)
Herodotus
Kon-Tiki
252(12)
Thor Heyerdahl
To the Summit of Everest
264(10)
Sir Edmund Hillary
Man Against Bronco
274(11)
Emerson Hough
The Tidal Wave
285(9)
Louis V. Housel
Hunting the African Buffalo
294(15)
J. A. Hunter
Masai Spearmen
309(8)
J. A. Hunter
We Jump Into Fire
317(11)
Starr Jenkins
Rocket Shoot at White Sands
328(10)
Jonathan Norton Leonard
New York to Paris
338(6)
Charles A. Lindbergh
Attempts on the Eigerwand
344(10)
C. F. Meade
The Buffalo Chase
354(6)
Francis Parkman
The North Pole Conquered
360(9)
Robert E. Peary
The Eruption of Vesuvius
369(6)
Pliny the Younger
On the Edge of the Primeval Forest
375(14)
Albert Schweitzer
The Last March
389(13)
Robert Falcon Scott
The Open Boat
402(21)
Sir Ernest Shackleton
Craters of Fire
423(14)
Haroun Tazieff
The Johnstown Flood
437(6)
Peter J. Toner
Ten Thousand Miles in the Saddle
443(9)
A. F. Tschiffely
Buzzing Death
452(3)
Tursa
Annapurna
455(11)
James Ramsey Ullman
A Waterspout in the Pacific
466(9)
James J. Wait
Success at Kitty Hawk
475(6)
Orville Wright
Sources and Acknowledgments 481

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