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368 pp (first edition, hardcover) ISBN. 978-0-316-83514-5. Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival is a 2004 nonfiction book written by maritime historian Dean King. [1] [2] It is based on two of the survivors' journals, primarily Captain James Riley 's memoir Sufferings in Africa. [3] [4] To research the book, Dean King embarked on a ...
Bethany Meilani Hamilton (born February 8, 1990) is an American professional surfer and writer. In 2003, she survived a shark attack in which her left arm was bitten off; ultimately, she returned to professional surfing and wrote about her experiences in the 2004 autobiography, Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board.
Lost in Shangri-la: A True Story of Survival, Adventure, and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II is a 2011 non-fiction book by American author Mitchell Zuckoff about a US military airplane called "The Gremlin Special", which crashed on May 13, 1945 in Netherlands New Guinea, and the subsequent rescue of the survivors.
Ricky Megee was born in 1970 or 1971 in Gippsland, Victoria; he later described his childhood as a happy one, until the family moved to Melbourne, where his father later killed himself. Megee worked at a variety of jobs. He was, variously, a carpet salesman, prawn fisherman, nightclub doorman, and an electrician. He eventually became a bailiff.
Aron Ralston. Aron Lee Ralston (born October 27, 1975) is an American mountaineer, mechanical engineer, and motivational speaker, known for surviving a canyoneering accident by cutting off part of his own right arm. On April 26, 2003, during a solo descent of Bluejohn Canyon in southeastern Utah, he dislodged a boulder, pinning his right wrist ...
Snowbound is based on a true story. Jim and Jennifer Stolpa and their infant son Clayton are 500 miles from their home in Castro Valley, California, when they lose their way and are stranded in an endless wilderness of deep snow near the ghost town of Vya, Nevada, east of Cedarville, California. They battle for survival against the elements ...
Tami Oldham Ashcraft. Born. Tami Lee Oldham. Known for. Surviving 41 days adrift in the Pacific Ocean. Map of the 1983 shipwreck. Tami Lee Oldham Ashcraft ( née Oldham) is an American sailor and author who, in 1983, survived 41 days adrift in the Pacific Ocean. [1] Her story inspired the 2018 film Adrift .
Soul Surfer (film) Soul Surfer. (film) Soul Surfer is a 2011 American biographical drama film directed by Sean McNamara, based on the 2004 memoir Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board by Bethany Hamilton about her life as a surfer after losing her left arm in a horrific shark attack and her recovery ...
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