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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 National Geographic Society sponsored expedition to retrace ...
The book was a critical success. Walter Clemons in Newsweek declared that it "will become a classic in the literature of survival". [2] Keith Mano of The New York Times Book Review gave the book a "rave" review, stating that "Read's style is savage: unliterary, undecorated as a prosecutor's brief." He also described the book as an important one:
Callahan's story also featured on an episode of British survival expert Ray Mears's television series Extreme Survival. In 2024, the book was made into the feature documentary "76 Days Adrift," Executive Produced by Ang Lee and Steven Callahan and directed by Joe Wein. [5]
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption is a 2010 non-fiction book by Laura Hillenbrand. Unbroken is a biography of World War II veteran Louis Zamperini, a former Olympic track star who survived a plane crash in the Pacific Theater, spent 47 days drifting on a raft, and then survived more than two and a half years as a prisoner of war (POW) in three Japanese POW ...
Ragnar Benson is the pen name of a prolific survivalist author who specializes in preparedness topics, particularly survival retreats, hunting, trapping, austere medicine, false identification, explosives, firearms, and improvised weapons.
Norman Ollestad Jr. (born May 30, 1967) is an American author. At the age of eleven, he was the only survivor of a plane crash that claimed the life of his father. He wrote about it in his 2009 bestseller Crazy For The Storm: A Memoir Of Survival. His subsequent book, French Girl with Mother, a novel, came out in October 2016.
The Patriots novel series is a five-novel series by survivalist novelist and former U.S. Army officer and blogger, James Wesley Rawles. It is followed by his Counter-Caliphate Chronicles novel series. Patriots: A Novel of Survival in the Coming Collapse, the first book in the series, was first distributed as shareware in 1995 and first ...
Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why is a 2003 analysis of survival case-studies by Laurence Gonzales. [1] It was first published in hardcover during October 2003 by W. W. Norton & Company and recounts the stories of people who have experienced life-threatening events. The book investigates how people remain alive during disastrous ...