Adrenaline 2001: The Year's Best Stories of Adventure and Survival

by Clint Willis (Editor)

Building on the success of Adrenaline 2000, the first annual collection of the world's best adventure writing, Adrenaline 2001 continues to extend the Adrenaline brand with more gripping contemporary tales: Jeffrey Tayler (Facing the Congo) finds more than he bargained for on one of the Dark Continent's most dangerous waterways; Malika Oufkir and her siblings escape from a Morrocan jail after 15 years of wrongful imprisonment; Lynn Snowden Picket (Looking for a Fight) finds her own heart of darkness as an angry amateur boxer; Tom Clynes risks his own health to learn more about the Ebola virus, and Greg Child (Fear of Falling) encounters an unexpected challenge while climbing in Kyrgyzstan: terrorists. Like other Adrenaline titles, this one taps one of our greatest literary resources: exceptional human beings in extreme circumstances.

Genres: Travel, Nonfiction

360 pages, Paperback

First published October 30, 2000

Reviews

[Andrew Burin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome book. Good mix of stories new and old, told in 1st person and 3rd person, historical and modern-day. Thrill-ride.

[Ben Tipper · Rating 1 out of 5]

A pretty shitty book. Not only were the stories not very inspiring and oftentimes poorly written, but they weren’t actually short stories at all. They were excerpts from larger works, and I thought the editor did a really poor job: both at selecting the stories in the first place and at choosing which segments to include. There were some abrupt, out of nowhere endings which felt unfinished that I didn’t like at all. Wouldn’t recommend; there are tons of other adventure stories out there and many of them are better then these.

[Nancy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yikes! Some people are way more adventurous than I! Found myself holding my breath during some of the stories!

[Midnight Blue · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book had some really awe-inspiring and heart-rending stories, but it also had some slightly boring stories right along with them. Overall, it was well worth the read because of the gems it contains....

[Leslie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Exciting thrilling short stories - a few even touched on deeper topics beyond the fear and faith of each encounter. I few stories in this collection were not as great yet as a whole it was a book I had a difficult time wanting to put down. Usually, at least had to finish the story I was on!

[Universitybabe · Rating 2 out of 5]

I loved the introduction to the book but found most of the stories lacking in either storytelling, or excitement.

[Marci · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not near as good as my Fathers stories of survival.

[Robin Reynolds · Rating 3 out of 5]

I finally finished this. Very hit or miss collection. Some stories were mesmerizing, some were boring.

[Angela · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good vacation book. A few of the excerpts were interesting enough that I'll look up the full book for them.