shipwreck survival

Vampire William Shakespeare concocts a plan to rid Katherine of her husband, but when they are shipwrecked on an island ruled by a wizard and a nymph they encounter a larger plot leading to the royal palace of Queen Elizabeth.

Readers can choose how the story ends in three different adventures about the night the "Titanic" sank.

Presents ten true tales of young survivors of the 1912 Titanic shipwreck, including seventeen-year-old Jack Thayer, fifteen-year-old Edith Brown, and eleven-year-old Billy Carter.

In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor'easter in years, wreaking havoc on land and creating a wind-whipped peril of the freezing Atlantic. In the early hours of Monday, February 18, while the storm raged, two oil tankers, the Fort Mercer and the Pendleton, broke in two. The Coast Guard raced its cutters to the Fort Mercer to rescue the men huddled in the halves, and when the Pendleton proved to be in danger of capsizing, sent out into the storm two 36-foot wooden lifeboats, each manned by four crewmen, in what every crewman realized could be a suicide mission in the enormous seventy-foot seas.

Many of Robinson Crusoe's adventures, told in his "own" words, illustrated with his "own" sketches as recorded in his journal and sketchbook supposedly unearthed years later in an old Scottish manor house.

Tess, a young seamstress working for designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon, survives the sinking of the RMS "Titanic," and finds herself torn between loyalty to her employer and to the sailor who saved her when Lady Duff Gordon's version of their escape differs from the truth.

What was it like for a woman to actually say goodbye to her husband? For a mother to leave her teenage sons? For the many who found themselves in the freezing Atlantic water? This is the most comprehensive collection of Titanic survivors' accounts ever published and includes many unpublished and long-forgotten accounts.

Violet Jessop, a stewardess on the Titanic, had the misfortune to be on two liners that sank and to survive both of these events. Her insights into the sinking of the Titanic in particular give historians a look at the disaster from the point of view of a crew member close to the passengers but not one of them. Violet Jessup never married and supported her mother. Her nieces kept her letters and personal mementos and were instrumental in the publication of this book.

Of all the families that boarded the doomed ocean liner Titanic in 1912, only one-fourth arrived safely in New York together. Albert and Sylvia Caldwell and their ten-month old son, Alden, were one of those rare families. They were idealistic young Presbyterian missionaries from the American midwest and had set out for Siam (Thailand) in 1909. But Sylvia got sick and they left Siam for England. They were returning to New York on the Titanic.