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Amazing Escapes (Ripley's Believe It Or Not)

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From the same series as World's Weirdest Critters, Creepy Stuff and Odd-inary People, Amazing Escapes in not in the same enjoyable league as these others. Too many similar entries for my liking such as numerous Tornado stories where someone was picked up and put down somewhere else, its interesting the first time but a simple dot point entry with person's name and place for the numerous others would have sufficed.

The eight page colour photograph insert in the middle of the book is a great addition although it must have been an afterthought as the same stories are in the rest of the book as well. Some interesting entries inside though such as a guy who used the body of snake instead of a bandage to stop the poison from flowing through his body and the surfer who prevented a shark biting him by ramming his surfboard down its throat.

Not a bad book and if it is a really cheap price pick up a copy. Much better though is Creepy Stuff from this series as well as the much larger Ripley's Believe it or Not Encyclopaedia of the Bizarre.

Amazing escapes is packed with real stories of people who survived scary things. Test your own survival skills by taking the No WAY test.