<em>Kodoku</em> by Kenichi Horie.
<em>Kodoku</em> by Kenichi Horie. In 1962, at the age of 23, Horie became the first person to make a solo crossing of the Pacific Ocean.
<em>Endurance</em> by Alfred Lansing. Shackelton's 1915 Antarctic Expedition gets trapped in the ice and crushed while still hundreds of miles from shore. There's no rescue mission, because it's 1915. There's no sense in trying to make it to shore, because there's nothing there. One of the most astounding true stories in human history.