shipwreck survival

An abridged version of the experiences of an Englishman stranded by shipwreck on a desert island where he survived for some thirty years.

"When a forty-seven-foot sailboat disappears in the Gulf Stream in the throes of a calamitous storm, it leaves behind three weary passengers struggling to stay alive afloat a life raft in violent waves 80 feet tall"--Provided by publisher.

Features true stories of what happens when people are at the mercy of the sea when they are caught in a storm, forced overboard by an angry crew, or their ship is sunk by a torpedo.

In the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress of ice rimming the Arctic seas, although there were lots of theories. Wealthy and prominent people funded expeditions and so it was that James Gordon Bennett, Jr., owner of The New York Herald, sent an official U.S. naval expedition to reach the Pole. On July 8, 1879, the USS Jeannette set sail from San Francisco. Leader George Washington De Long led a team of thirty-two men deep into uncharted waters. Two years later, after journeying north of the Bering Strait, they found themselves trapped in pack ice. The ship's hull was fatally breached, the Jeannette sank to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean, and the men found themselves marooned on the ice cap nearly a thousand miles north of Siberia with three open boats and only the barest supplies. Thus began their long march across the frozen sea---an ordeal that ranks as one of the greatest struggles for survival in history.

A WWII hero's courageous, inspiring true story of survival against all odds after the sinking of the USS Indianapolis.

When her father remarries, Sarah Robinson gets a stepmom and two stepbrothers, and when the family takes a vacation to get to know each other by sailing for a few days near Fiji things go horribly wrong.

Relates the adventures and struggle for survival of a Chinese steward who drifted 1200 miles on a raft to the coast of Brazil after being shipwrecked in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

In this narrative written by his son, retired Marine Edgar Harrell describes his life, particulary as pertains to his serving on the U.S.S. Indianapolis at the time of its sinking and the struggle to survive the disaster, as well as the many years spent working to have the captain of the ship exonerated from charges leveled at him over the incident.