Survivors: Amazing Real-Life Stories of Extreme Survival

Winner of the Best Book With Facts Blue Peter Book Award 2017, this collection by David Long presents astonishing, true accounts of human endurance against incredible odds. Beautifully presented in a large paperback format and fully illustrated in colour throughout, this anthology offers inspirational and shocking tales perfect for young readers aged 9 to 11 years.

• Winner of the Best Book With Facts Blue Peter Book Award 2017.
• Features incredible, true stories of extreme survival, combining classic and modern exploits.
• Fully illustrated in colour throughout.
• Inspirational content mixing peril and the uplift of survival.
• Includes tales such as the sailor who survived 133 days on a raft and the teenager who fell 2 miles from an aeroplane.

• The Man Who Sucked Blood from a Shark: A sailor's 133-day survival on an Atlantic raft.
• The Girl Who Fell From the Sky: A teenager's trek to safety through the Amazon jungle after falling 2 miles from an aeroplane.
• The Woman Who Froze to Death - Yet Lived: A woman revived after her heart stopped for four hours under freezing water.
• Features stories inspired by events like Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic voyage and the adventurer behind the movie 127 Hours.

• Author: David Long
• Illustrator: Kerry Hyndman
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Main
• Language: English
• Publication Date: October 5, 2017
• Print Length: 192 pages
• Reading Age: 9 - 11 years
• ISBN-13: 978-0571339662
• Dimensions: 18.8 x 1.5 x 24.5 cm
• Weight: 580 g
• EAN: 9780571339662
• Fecha de lanzamiento: 05.10.2017

This gorgeously presented book is an insightful and inspirational read for all the family, packed with astonishing true stories that young readers will want to share.