An edition of Triumph over odds
(1957)
Triumph over odds
an anthology of man's unconquerable spirit, edited with a foreword and introductory notes
1st ed.
by J. Donald Adams
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Triumph over odds: an anthology of man's unconquerable spirit, edited with a foreword and introductory notes
1957, Duell, Sloan and Pearce
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Table of Contents
pt. 1.
Man against the outer world:
David and Goliath (the Old Testament) --
March of the ten thousand (Xenophon) --
In the pass at Thermopylae (Herodotus) --
Hannibal crosses the Alps (Livy) --
The Battle of Hastings, A.D. 1066 (Sir Charles Oman) --
Cabeza de Vaca (Haniel Long) --
Father Jogues (Francis Parkman) --
The death of La Salle (Francis Parkman) --
Daniel Boone, prisoner of the Shawnee king (John Bakeless) --
Lord Nelson at Trafalgar Square (Robert Southey) --
Trial by wilderness (George Washington) --
The march on Vincennes: George Rogers Clark (Walter Havighurst) --
John Colter escapes from the Indians (Burton Harris) --
The descent of the Colorado: Major Powell (Wallace Stegner) --
Death in the Antarctic (Robert Falcon Scott) --
Storm off Cape Horn (Joshua Slocum) --
Back from the border of death (Charles A. Lindbergh) --
The enemy sleep (Charles A. Lindbergh) --
Woman alone (Laurens van der Post) --
Crash over the Andes (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry) --
Dunkirk (Arthur D. Divine) --
Bataan (Sidney Stewart) --
The ascent of Annapurna (Maurice Herzog) --
Death by avalanche (Elliott Arnold) --
In the bowels of the earth: the speleologists (John Stewart Collis) -- -- pt. 2.
Man against the inner world:
The trials of Job (the Old Testament) --
The trial and death of Socrates (Plato) --
The trial and crucifixion of Jesus ((the New Testament) --
The youth of St. Augustine (St. Augustine) --
The trial of Joan of Arc (official transcript) --
Beethoven in deafness (J.W.N. Sullivan) --
The sacrifice of Charles Lamb (John Mason Brown) --
The last years of Charles Dickens (Edgar Johnson) --
Ordeals of Francis Parkman (Van Wyck Brooks) --
Ordeals of Vincent Van Gogh (J. Van Gogh-Bonger) --
Ordeal in Arabia (T.E. Lawrence) --
Alone (Rear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd) --
Sentence of death (Hans Zinsser) --
The four chaplains (Rev. Francis B. Thornton) --
The man who lived twice: Edward Shelton (Anne Morrow Lindbergh) --
A season in hell (Van Wyck Brooks) --
The diary of a young girl (Anne Frank) --
The woman who could not die (Iulia de Beausobre) --
A now to live again (Betsey Barton) --
Death be not proud (John Gunther) --
Undying spirit: Eliena Krylenko (The Vineyard Gazette).
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