Incredible journeys : 60 stories of courage, hope, and survival / Thomas Cussans ; foreward by Sir Chay Blyth Cussans, Thomas

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Author
Cussans, Thomas
Subjects
Voyages and travels - History.
Contents
  • Machine derived contents note: Contents List
  • Foreword 6
  • Introduction 8
  • Chapter 1 ¿ Air & Space
  • 1903 The first powered flight 12
  • The Wright Brothers
  • 1909 The Channel conquered 16
  • Louis Blériot
  • 1911 The first flight across the United States 20
  • Cal Rodgers
  • 1919 The first flight from England to Australia 22
  • Keith and Ross Smith
  • 1927 New York to Paris nonstop 24
  • Charles Lindbergh
  • 1928 The first crossing of the Pacific 30
  • Charles Kingsford-Smith
  • 1932 The first female solo crossing of the Atlantic 32
  • Amelia Earhart
  • 1933 The first man to fly solo around the world 36
  • Wiley Post
  • 1961 The first man in space 40
  • Yuri Gagarin
  • 1969 The first man on the Moon 44
  • Neil Armstrong¿Apollo 11
  • 1986 The first nonstop round-the-world flight 50
  • Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager
  • 2002 The first solo nonstop round-the-world balloon flight 54
  • Steve Fossett
  • 2004 SpaceShipOne: The first private venture into space 58
  • Burt Rutan
  • Chapter 2 ¿ Ice & Snow
  • 1905 The Northwest Passage attained 62
  • Roald Amundsen
  • 1909 Farthest south: Nimrod expedition to Antarctica 64
  • Ernest Shackleton
  • 1909 Dual claims to have reached the North Pole 68
  • Dr. Frederick Cook and Robert Peary
  • 1911 The winter trek to Cape Crozier 70
  • Edward Wilson, Henry Bowers, and Apsley Cherry-Garrard
  • 1911 The South Pole attained 74
  • Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott
  • 1953 The first ascent of Everest 80
  • Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
  • 1958 The crossing of Antarctica 84
  • Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary
  • 1969 The crossing of the Arctic 88
  • Wally Herbert
  • 1978 Everest without oxygen 92
  • Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler
  • 1984¿1986, and 1989
  • The first journey to both Poles 96
  • Robert Swan
  • 2001 Rescue at the South Pole 100
  • Sean Loutitt, Mark Carey, and Norman Wong
  • Chapter 3 ¿ Wind & Water
  • 1939 The last grain race 104
  • Eric Newby
  • 1958 The first passage under the North Pole 108
  • Nautilus
  • 1960 To the bottom of the seas 110
  • Trieste
  • 1968¿1969
  • The first man to sail solo non-stop around the world 112
  • Robin Knox-Johnston
  • 1969 The first solo Atlantic row 116
  • John Fairfax
  • 1970¿1971
  • The impossible voyage 118
  • Chay Blyth
  • 1977¿1978
  • The first woman to sail solo around the world 124
  • Naomi James
  • 1987¿1988
  • The first woman to sail solo nonstop around the world 128
  • Kate Cottee
  • 2000¿2001
  • Bold man of the sea 130
  • Jim Shekhdar
  • 2004¿2005
  • Race against time 134
  • Ellen MacArthur
  • 2006 The record man 140
  • Bruno Peyron
  • Chapter 4 ¿ Imperialists & Adventurers
  • 1903¿1904
  • To the forbidden city 146
  • Francis Younghusband
  • 1906 Across the Sahara 150
  • Henri Laperrine
  • 1933¿1935
  • A time of gifts 152
  • Patrick Leigh Fermor
  • 1946¿1948
  • Across the Empty Quarter 154
  • Wilfred Thesiger
  • 1947 The Kon-Tiki Expedition 158
  • Thor Heyerdahl
  • 1952 Living off the sea 164
  • Alain Bombard
  • 1976¿1977
  • The Brendan Voyage 168
  • Tim Severin
  • 2006¿2007
  • By skateboard across Australia 172
  • Dave Cornthwaite
  • Chapter 5 ¿ Escapers
  • 1931 The rabbit-proof fence 178
  • Molly, Daisy, and Gracie
  • 1931¿1941
  • Escape from Devil¿s Island 182
  • Henri Charrière: Papillon
  • 1940 The Inn of Eight Happinesses 186
  • Gladys Aylward
  • 1941¿1945
  • The wolf girl 188
  • Misha Defonseca
  • 1942 Through the jungle of death 192
  • Stephen Brookes
  • 1943 The man on the plateau 196
  • Jan Baalsrud
  • 1949¿1952
  • Three years to freedom 202
  • Clemens Forell
  • Chapter 6 ¿ Survivors
  • 1914 The great Antarctic rescue 210
  • 1940 70 days in a lifeboat 216
  • Robert Tapscott and Roy Widdicombe
  • 1945 Death of a ship 220
  • U.S.S. Indianapolis
  • 1970 Apollo 13: the successful failure 224
  • Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert
  • 1972 Flight 571 230
  • Lost in the Andes
  • 1980 The marathon of hope 234
  • Terry Fox
  • 1985 Touching the void: man versus mountain 238
  • Joe Simpson
  • 1987 Man in motion 242
  • Rick Hansen
  • 1996 Left for dead 244
  • Beck Weathers
  • 1996 Race for survival 248
  • Raphael Dinelli and Pete Goss
  • Index 250
  • Bibliography 254
  • Acknowledgements 255
  • Picture credits 256.
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