Books like The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor
A Colombian navy sailor washed off a destroyer in 1955 tells how he survived ten days adrift on a raft in the Caribbean without food or water.
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The Old Man and the Sea
An ageing Cuban fisherman hooks the biggest marlin of his life and fights the sea, the sharks, and his own failing body to bring it home.
Into the Wild
In 1992 Chris McCandless, a gifted young college graduate, gave away his savings, walked into the Alaskan wilderness to live off the land and was found dead months later, and Jon Krakauer reconstructs why.
Endurance
The true story of Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition: the ship trapped in ice, the crew stranded on a frozen sea, and the impossible rescue that saved all twenty-seven men.
Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer reconstructs the 1996 Everest disaster, which he lived through as a journalist on a commercial expedition, in a story of ambition, money and the mountain's indifference.
News of a Kidnapping
García Márquez's account of the kidnapping of ten Colombian journalists and public figures by Pablo Escobar's Medellín cartel in 1990, taken as leverage against extradition to the United States.
Pincher Martin
Christopher Martin, a naval officer torpedoed in the Atlantic during the Second World War, drags himself onto a bare rock in the ocean and fights to stay alive.
Living to Tell the Tale
The first volume of García Márquez's memoirs, from his childhood in his grandparents' house in Aracataca to his years as a young journalist in Cartagena and Barranquilla, up to 1955.
Robinson Crusoe
A shipwrecked sailor survives alone for twenty-eight years on an island off South America, building a life from what he can salvage and turning survival into a colonial project.
Underground
Murakami's interviews with survivors of the 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, and with members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult behind it, set beside his own essay on what the attack revealed about Japan.
Captains Courageous
Harvey Cheyne, the spoiled son of an American railroad millionaire, falls overboard from a liner and is fished out by a Gloucester cod schooner whose captain won't turn back for months.
Life of Pi
When the ship carrying his family's zoo sinks, sixteen-year-old Pi Patel is left adrift in the Pacific on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, and has to find a way to survive with him.
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Karana, a young Native American girl, is left behind when her people abandon their island off the California coast, and survives alone there for years, in a novel based on the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island.