The statistics, descriptions, and illustrative maps fully describe of 60 of the world's greatest survival stories. Find out 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; how Shackleton’s men survived the incredible journey by boat to South Georgia; and how Naheeda Bi survived 10 years in captivity after her notorious tribal kidnapping in Pakistan.