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Storms,
Shipwrecks, & Survivors
A Belvedere-Tiburon Library Reading List

THE
STORMY SEAS
After
the Storm: True Stories of Disaster and Recovery at Sea
by John Rousmaniere
Detailed accounts of sea disasters from the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries.
910.452 Rousmaniere 2002 NEW BOOKS
Fatal
Storm: The Inside Story of the Tragic Sydney-Hobart
Race
by Rob Mundle
A freak storm strikes during a 630-mile sailing race
from Sydney, Australia to Hobart, Tasmania.
797.14 Mundle 1999
The
Perfect Storm
by Sebastian Junger
The true story of the final voyage of the fishing trawler
Andrea Gail. The film
version is available
in our DVD collection.
974.4 Junger 1998
The
Ship and the Storm: Hurricane Mitch and the Loss of
the Fantome
by Jim Carrier
The Fantome, a four-masted schooner, struggles to avoid
disaster off the coast of Honduras in 1998.
910.916365 Carrier 2001
Rescue
in the Pacific: A True Story of Disaster and Survival
in a Force 12 Storm
by Tony Farrington
The story of the largest search and rescue operation
of modern times in the South Pacific.
363.123 Farrington 1996
SURVIVORS
AND CASTAWAYS
Adrift:
Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea
by Steven Callahan
After his sloop sinks, Callahan is left adrift in the
Atlantic in a five-and-a-half-foot inflatable raft.
910.09 Callahan 1986
The
Custom of the Sea: A Shocking True Tale of Shipwreck,
Murder, and the Last Taboo
by Neil Hanson
A four-man crew struggles to survive after their boat
sinks off the coast of West Africa in 1884.
910.452 Hanson 1999
Red
Sky in Mourning: A True Story of Love, Loss, and Survival
at Sea
by Tami Oldham Ashcraft
The yacht piloted by the author and her fiancé
is struck by a hurricane while crossing the Pacific.
910.9164 Ashcraft 2000
The
Story of a Ship-Wrecked Sailor
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Garcia recounts the ten-day ordeal of Luis Alejandro
Velasco, a sailor swept overboard en route from Mobile,
Alabama to Cartagena, Columbia.
910.09 Garcia-Marquez 1970
Survive
the Savage Sea
by Dougal Robertson
Robertson and his family survive for thirty-seven days
after their schooner is attacked and sunk by killer
whales.
910.45 Robertson 1994
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