Course Outline
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Preliminary Reading List
The following is a preliminary reading list arranged randomly by category.
The student will select from seven (7) of the ten (10) categories below and write an extensive critique (subject to a set of study guides) for one selection from each category.
General
Wild: Stories of Survival from the World's Most Dangerous Places edited by Clint Willis
Storm Stories of Survival from Land and Sea, edited by Clint Willis
Quest for Adventure - Chris Bonington
The Winter Athlete - Steve Ilg
Nautical
117 Days Adrift - Maurice and Maralyn Baily
Adrift – Steven Callahan
Close to the Wind – Pete Goss
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition – Caroline Alexander
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
The Perfect Storm – Sebastian Junger
Fastnet, Force 10 – John Rousmaniere
In the Heart of the Sea – Nathaniel Philbrick
The Incredible Voyage – Tristan Jones
Trial by Ice – Richard Parry
Rescue in the Pacific: The true story of Disaster and Survival in a Force 12 Storm – Tony Farrington
The Proving Ground: The Inside Story of the Sydney to Hobart Race - Bruce Knecht
Women Sailors and Sailors’ Women: An Untold Maritime History – David Cordingly
Alpine
Into Thin Air- Jon Krakauer
Touching the Void – Joe Simpson
Alive – Piers Paul Read
Going Higher - Charles S. Houston, M.D.
Avalanche Safety for Skier and Climbers - Tony Daffern
Everest - Mountain Without Mercy - Broughton Coburn
The Book of Modern Mountaineering - Malcolm Milne
K2 The Savage Mountain - Charles S. Houston, M.D. and Robert H. Bates
In the Land of White Death: An Epic Story of Survival in the Siberian Artic - Valerian Albanov
Aviation
Inside The Sky – William Langewiesche
Thirteen: The Flight That Failed - Henry S. F. Cooper, Jr.
Personal
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Jacobs
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt
Slave Narratives edited by William L. Andrews, Henry L. Gates, Jr.
Night - Elie Wiesel
This Boy’s Life – Tobias Wolff
White Oleander - Janet Fitch
Living the Good Life – Scott Nearing
Wilderness
Deliverance – James Dickey
Into the Wild – Jon Krakauer
My Antonia - Willa Cather
Call of the Wild – Jack London
Holocaust
Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
War
Ghost Soldiers – Hampton Sides
My War Gone By, I Miss It So - Anthony Loyd
Community
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Institutional Artifacts
Brunelleschi’s Dome – Ross King
Multimedia – Film & TV
The Great Escape
Jeremiah Johnson
Lifeboat
Stalag 17
M*A*S*H
The Naked Prey
The Sands of the Kalihari
Flight of the Phoenix