To build a fire / Jack London -- The great unknown / John Wesley Powell -- The battle of the marten and the porcupine / Mayne Reid -- Robinson Crusoe / Daniel Defoe -- Love of life / Jack London -- Shipwreck of the whaleship Essex / Owen Chase -- An adventure with a dog and a glacier / John Muir -- The boat journey / Ernest Shackleton -- Battle with the giant octopus / Victor Hugo -- Encounter with the Blackfeet / Osborne Russell -- Around the Horn / Richard Henry Dana, Jr. -- The worst journey in the world / Apsley Cherry-Garrard -- On dangerous ground / Lamar Underwood.