81 days below zero the incredible survival story of a World War II pilot in Alaska's frozen wilderness
"Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned: Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero t...
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Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group,
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| 100 | 1 | |a Murphy, Brian, |d 1959- |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a 81 days below zero : |b the incredible survival story of a World War II pilot in Alaska's frozen wilderness / |c Brian Murphy with Toula Vlahou. |
| 246 | 3 | |a Eighty-one days below zero | |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a Incredible survival story of a World War II pilot in Alaska's frozen wilderness |
| 264 | 1 | |a Boston, MA : |b Da Capo Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group, |c 2016. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2015 | |
| 300 | |a x, 238 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations ; |c 23 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-226) and index. | ||
| 520 | |a "Shortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a test flight. Only one ever returned: Leon Crane, a city kid from Philadelphia with little more than a parachute on his back when he bailed from his B-24 Liberator before it crashed into the Arctic. Alone in subzero temperatures, Crane managed to stay alive in the dead of the Yukon winter for nearly twelve weeks and, amazingly, walked out of the ordeal intact. 81 Days Below Zero recounts, for the first time, the full story of Crane's remarkable saga. In a drama of staggering resolve with moments of phenomenal luck, Crane learned to survive in the Yukon's unforgiving landscape. His is a tale of the human capacity to endure extreme conditions and intense loneliness-and emerge stronger than before "-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Machine generated contents note: ch. One December 21, 1943 -- ch. Two December 22, 1943 -- ch. Three December 23, 1943 -- ch. Four June 23, 1994 -- ch. Five December 25, 1943 -- ch. Six December 29, 1943 -- ch. Seven December 29, 1943 -- ch. Eight December 30, 1943 -- ch. Nine August 31, 2006 -- ch. Ten January 10, 1944 -- ch. Eleven January 19, 1944 -- ch. Twelve February 10, 1944 -- ch. Thirteen September 15, 2006 -- ch. Fourteen March 3, 1944 -- ch. Fifteen March 9, 1944 -- ch. Sixteen March 10, 1944 -- ch. Seventeen March 13, 1944 -- ch. Eighteen March 14, 1944 -- ch. Nineteen March 7, 2007 -- ch. Twenty September 7, 2007. | |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Crane, Leon, |d 1919-2002. |
| 650 | 0 | |a Air pilots, Military |z United States |v Biography. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Aerial operations, American. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Airplane crash survival |z Alaska. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Wilderness survival |z Alaska. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a B-24 (Bomber) |x Accidents |z Alaska. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Aeronautics, Military |x Accidents |z Alaska. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |z Alaska. | |
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