A unique collection of first-hand accounts
'A few more whacks of the ice-axe, and a few very weary steps, and we were on the summit of Everest!' Thus Edmund Hillary recalls one of the most jubilant moments of this century. Charles Lindbergh tells of his epic solo flight across the Atlantic nearly fifty years ago; Jacques Cousteau confronts a sea of deadly sharks, and a survivor of the Titanic disaster relives that nightmare. These are among the eyewitness accounts of some twelve outstanding events in our history: here is a wide spectrum of human endeavour brought vividly to life again by those who were there.
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