Survival Stories: Nonfiction

True stories of endurance, bravery, and hope.

Updated June 4, 2023
LINCC (Libraries in Clackamas County) Milwaukie Ledding Library
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Adrift : seventy-six days lost at sea
Callahan, Steven.
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: The riveting account of a harrowing month spent stranded at sea--an incredible story of one man's struggle and bravery. Steven Callahan shares his dramatic tale of survival at sea in this undeniable seafaring classic. His engrossing firsthand...
Alone : orphaned on the ocean
Logan, Richard D.
Paper Book
Terry Jo Duperrault was 11 when her family was murdered at sea aboard a chartered sailboat off the coast of Florida. She jumped overboard just in time to escape. Surviving four days on a cork float in the middle of the ocean, Terry Jo's rescue pictures graced LIFE Magazine soon after she was...
Deep down dark : the untold stories of 33 men buried in a Chilean mine, and the miracle that set them free
Tobar, Hčtor
CD
The exclusive, official story of the survival, faith, and family of Chile's thirty-three trapped miners When the San Jos mine collapsed outside of Copiap , Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days....
Lost in Shangri-la : [a true story of survival, adventure, and the most incredible rescue mission of World War II]
Zuckoff, Mitchell.
CD
"A lost world, man-eating tribesmen, lush andimpenetrable jungles, stranded American fliers (one of them a dame withgreat gams, for heaven's sake), a startling rescue mission. . . . This is atrue story made in heaven for a writer as talented as Mitchell Zuckoff. Whew-what an utterly compelling and...
Miracles on the water : the heroic survivors of a World War II U-boat attack
Nagorski, Tom
Paper Book
An unforgettable story of children in wartime, of heroism at sea, and--above all--of courage and the power of the human spirit. On September 17, 1940, at a little after ten at night, a German submarine torpedoed the passenger liner S.S. City of Benares in the North...

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