Rescue : daring missions from on, under and above the Earth

Long, David, 1961- author.

Book 2020

"How far would you go to save a life? Scrambling from the wreckage of his school after an earthquake, a nine-year-old Sichuan boy rescued two unconscious friends. 'I was hall monitor,' he said afterwards. 'It is my job to look after my classmates.' Whether dragging a friend from a blazing car, masterminding a search far below the earth's surface, or recovering astronauts from an aborted space mission, Rescue reveals the ingenuity, courage and dog...

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ISBN:

9780571346332

Edition:

Paperback edition

Description:

181 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Daring missions from on, under and above the Earth

Notes:

"This edition first published in the UK in 2019"--Title page verso

Contents:

John McCants and Bill Lowrey: A daring mid-air rescue
Lin Hao: A schoolboy's duty to his classmates
Mike Hailwood: Braving the flames to save a friend
Jessica McClure: The girl who fell down a well
SS Andrea Doria: Disaster in the fog
Anupam Gaur: A helicopter in the Himalayas
`Buster' Cain: Teenage hero of the Blitz
Brian Keaulana and Earl Bungo: A jet-ski to the rescue
Wayne Shorthouse: When a daring stunt goes wrong
Reshma Begum: Two weeks trapped under rubble
Chesley Sullenberger: An emergency landing on water
Operation Jericho: A daring rescue from an enemy jail
Mohammed Omar Al Shamma and Mustafa Ahmed Mohammed: Trapped in a burning building
Dave Hahn: His helicopter crashes but he carries on
Eddie Hall: Just doing his job
Gustavo Badillo: Lost in a cave and running out of air
Flight 251: A crash in the desert
MV Maersk Alabama: A modern, American pirate rescue
Shavarsh Karapetyan: A champion swimmer dives after a bus
Pasang Tenzing: History's highest-ever mountain rescue
SS Suevic: The vicar and the volunteers
Apollo 13: `Houston, we've had a problem'
The Seabees: Saving a family teetering on the edge
The San José Mine: Sixty-nine days in the dark
Channing Moss: A bomb inside a soldier's body
Ian Riches and Stuart Gold: Rescuing the rescuers
Rescue at Entebbe: Commandos storm an airport
The Wild Boars: Trapped in a cave by rising water
Epilogue

Control Number:

3049862

Other Authors:

Hyndman, Kerry, illustrator

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