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Extreme Survivors: 60 of the World?s Most Extreme Survival Stories
by Maps, Collins
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- F/VG++/ND
- ISBN 10
- 0007482779
- ISBN 13
- 9780007482771
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Edn. Thus.* Impression: 2nd.Reprint. * Date of Publication: 2013(2012) * Publisher: Collins. * Binding and cover condition: Photo-illustrated stiff card covers showing an alpine peak. No bumps or rubs. Minimal shelf wear to covers. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems un-used. VG++ * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults, no tanning or marks to page edges. FINE * Illustrations: Numerous colour photos & maps plus b/w illustrations within text throughout.* Pages: 255 pp. text. ix pp. bibliography, index & credits at rear.* Product Description:- Extreme Survivors tells the illustrated story of 60 of the most daring escapes, famous shipwrecks, and ultimate survival stories. These are astonishing stories of human endurance and endeavour. The statistics, descriptions, archive photographs and illustrative maps will give you a full understanding of how Joe Simpson crawled to safety in the South American Andean mountains, how Anthony Farrar-Hockley evaded capture after the Battle of Imjin River in the Korean War and how Shackleton?s men survived the incredible journey by boat to South Georgia..* This is a FINE text copy of the 2nd. reprint with minimal shelf wear reducing it to VG++.*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1134
- Title
- Extreme Survivors: 60 of the World?s Most Extreme Survival Stories
- Author
- Maps, Collins
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - F/VG++/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st. Edition, 2nd. Reprint.
- ISBN 10
- 0007482779
- ISBN 13
- 9780007482771
- Publisher
- Collins
- Place of Publication
- Glasgow UK. 264
- Date Published
- 2013-01-01
- Size
- 7.6 x 1.8 x 10.2 cm
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