438 Days Adrift: How One Man Survived Crossing the Pacific on a Fishing Boat
A shark-fishing trip meant to last thirty hours became the longest known survival story in a small boat. It is…
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The Whale, the Boats, and the Lot: The True Story Behind Moby-Dick
In 1820, a sperm whale sank a Nantucket ship in the middle of the Pacific. What happened to the twenty…
The Real “Lord of the Flies”: How Six Tongan Boys Survived 15 Months Alone on a Deserted Island
William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies” gave the world one of its most enduring, bleakest assumptions: strand a group of…
For 17 Years, He Thought Civilization Was Thousands of Miles Away. It Was Quietly Moving Toward Him.
Few survival stories are stranger than that of James Morrill. In 1846, the 22-year-old British sailor survived a shipwreck off…
The Auckland Island Paradox: Two Shipwrecks, One Island, Two Very Different Fates
A Forgotten Island at the Edge of the World Roughly 460 kilometers south of New Zealand’s South Island, deep in…