shipwrecks

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Stowaways

2012
Maya and Tucker go back in time to convince Titanic's captain to change the ship's course.

Overboard

2012
Tucker and Maya use the final Titanic artifact to return to 1912 one last time to rescue Liam and join the survivors in the lifeboats as they wait for rescue.

Robinson Crusoe

1998
An Englishman who is the sole survivor of a seventeenth century shipwreck lives for almost thirty years on a deserted island before being rescued.

Robinson Crusoe

2010
During one of his several adventurous voyages in the seventeenth century, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a desert island.

Voyagers of the Titanic

passengers, sailors, shipbuilders, aristocrats, and the worlds they came from
2012
Presents the backgrounds of the varied passengers aboard the Titanic, covering all the classes, the different careers, and the hopes of these voyagers, and reflects on the history of the times.

Shadow of the Titanic

the extraordinary stories of those who survived
2012
Examines the lives of the individuals who survived the sinking of the Titantic, featuring details gathered from letters, memoirs, diaries, and interviews.

Hurricane dancers

the first Caribbean pirate shipwreck
2011
Quebrado has been a slave on captain Bernadino de Talavera's pirate ship for years, but when a hurricane sinks the ship and kills most of the crew, Quebrado escapes to safety and finds acceptance and refuge in a nearby village.

A brave vessel

the true tale of the castaways who rescued Jamestown and inspired Shakespeare's The tempest
2009
Describes the fates of the 153 passengers bound for the colony in Jamestown, Virginia, after a hurricane stranded them for nearly a year on uninhabited Bermuda, based on the journal records kept by castaway and English gentleman, William Strachey.

Titanic survivor

the newly discovered memoirs of Violet Jessop who survived both the Titanic and Britannic disasters
1997
Presents the memoirs of Violet Jessop, an ocean liner stewardess with the White Star Line who survived the sinking of the Titanic only to become a wartime nurse aboard the Britannic which also sank after hitting a mine.

66 days adrift

a true story of disaster and survival on the open sea
2005
The author chronicles his and his wife's nine desperate weeks adrift in the Pacific on a six-foot raft, twelve hundred miles from land with little food and surrounded by sharks, after their intended circumnavigation of the globe was cut short by a whale attack upon their sloop.

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