Contains: Leiningen versus the ants / Carl Stephenson To build a fire / Jack London Cooper's Creek / Alan Moorehead Walk well, my brother / Farley Mowat Three Skeleton Key / George G. Toudouze Shipwreck of the Whaleship Essex / Owen Chase [The most dangerous game](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5278311W) / Richard Connell "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" / Rudyard Kipling A first-rate tragedy / Diana Preston Two mountain men / George Laycock Three days / John Haines The open boat / Stephen Crane The long walk / Slavomir Rawicz Alive / Piers Paul Read Annapurna / Maurice Herzog The boat journey / Sir Ernest Shackleton The Devil's Thumb / Jon Krakauer.