With the technology of the past few decades, it can seem difficult to find ourselves in a dangerous situation without any assistance - but there are cases like that. The journalist LuÃs Francisco gathered several stories of survival and rescue in a real “book of adventures”, with a (almost always) happy ending.
They are stories of survival in extreme scenarios: a Portuguese woman who escaped the fury of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004; a fisherman who spent 438 days adrift in the Pacific; a boy who survived eight months in the dense forest on the island of PrÃncipe with the help of a monkey who picked up coconuts; a man who was buried alive for 27 days in Haiti, who survived by drinking