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Learn how to survive tsunamis, sharks, lightning strikes, earthquakes, airplane crashes and 65 other hair-raising scenarios!

In 1659, after becoming the sole survivor of a shipwreck, Englishman Robinson Crusoe lives on a deserted island for more than twenty-eight years.

Jam packed with information, each Instant Expert guide offers practical, hands on advice from expert insiders, along with step by step instructions and photography, as well as links to online how to videos.

In his diary, Sam Gribley tells of a year spent living alone in a tree house in the Catskill Mountains learning about plant and animal life during the changing seasons.

Generations of readers have escaped into the woods with My Side of the Mountain , the story of a city boy named Sam who learns to live in the wild. Now, Newbery winner Jean Craighead George offers an easy-to-follow guide for fans who want to live the adventure—just like Sam. Learn how to start a fire, build a shelter, catch a fish, identify useful plants, and much more. Hands-on activities are perfect for backyard campers or an afternoon stroll through the park.

You are surrounded by the vast, unforgiving landscape of the coldest place on Earth Antarctica. Even during the summer months, bone chilling cold, raging blizzards, and treacherous ice threatens human survival. Will you, Join the race to be the first to reach the South Pole? Attempt to ski across the continent as part of an all female expedition? Study Antarctic plant and animal life as a scientist at a research station? Experience the life or death dilemmas of a place few people ever see. YOU CHOOSE what youll do next. The choices you make will either lead you to safety or to doom.

Boys of all ages love to hunt, explore, and discover. They like expeditions, secret messages, and remote hideaways. They love to build, fix, and create. In short, they love adventure, and this four-color paperback is jammed full of 100 hijinks and escapades boys can get into right in their own backyards! Divided into five sections – ” Exploring, Hunting, Experimenting, Building, and Playing. The activities in The Curious Boy ’s Book of Adventure reawaken the adventure instinct!

Learn all the skills you’ll need for a life full of exciting adventures! It’s all in this fun, humorous boys’ guide. Inside, boys will learn how to dive for treasure,slay a werewolf, survive on a desert island, escape a capsizing ship, tackle a komodo dragon, and much more.

Tired of his mother’s overprotectiveness and intrigued by the life of African American explorer Matthew Henson, twelve-year-old Alvin travels north and spends a season with a trapper near the Arctic Circle.

The author relates incidents in his life and how they inspired parts of his books about the character, Brian Robeson.

After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents’ divorce.

Considered lazy and unathletic, twelve-year-old Ryan discovers a heroic side of himself when a kayak trip with his older brother goes horribly awry.

Left alone to guard the family’s wilderness home in eighteenth-century Maine, a boy is hard-pressed to survive until local Indians teach him their skills.

Based on a Polynesian legend, this is the story of a youth who overcomes his fear of the sea and proves his courage to himself and his tribe.

When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.