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

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