The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger. Oh, wait, you said survival. Never mind.
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Zeitoun by Dave Eggers is about a Syrian-American who does not evacuate from New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Amazing book.
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In The Heart of The Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick or The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown
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Unbroken: A World War Story of Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
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Humankind by Rutger Bregman has a section about the 6 boys from Tonga who got shipwrecked on an island for 15 months.
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Trapped Under The Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into Darkness by Neil Swidy is about an unusual commercial diving disaster that has (some) survivors.
Into The Lion’s Mouth: The Story of the Wildrake Diving Accident by Michael Smart is the story of a famous lost bell commercial diving accident. The book can be hard to find but it’s worth it if you can drum up a copy.
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h{{Alive by Piers Paul Read}}.
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*Into Thin Air* by Jon Krakauer
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Aquanaut: The Inside Story of the Thai Cave Rescue
The author was one of the main rescue divers.
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The Worst Journey in the World, Cherry-Garrard
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The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger.
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It would be helpful to know how old you are. There’s a series in paperback called I Survived… and the topics are things like the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco or the sinking of the Titanic. The reading level is around third grade.
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In Harm’s Way by Stanton
Marriage at Sea by Elmhirst
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Beyond the Deep – Paulsen
Awesome.
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I’m not sure if it counts as disaster, but h{{Between a Rock and a Hard Place}} is what the movie 127 hours is based on.
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“Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Tragedy, and Survival at the Edge of the World” by Eric Jay Dolin
It’s about a group of Americans in the Falkland Islands in 1812 that “rescued” some shipwrecked Britons but then 5 Americans were left on the islands by the British. It’s a kinda complicated story…
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Collision on Tenerife by Jon Ziomek
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Mawson’s Will–the Endurance guys get all the glory for polar survival stories but Douglas Mawson did it alone, traveling cross country on for, while suffering (I don’t want to spoil it).
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There’s a section of the biography of Gene Roddenberry “Star Trek Creator” that describes his experience as a PanAm pilot surviving a crash in the African desert with passengers waiting about a week for rescue. He had an amazing life.
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Endurance by Alfred Lansing
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger. Oh, wait, you said survival. Never mind.
Zeitoun by Dave Eggers is about a Syrian-American who does not evacuate from New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Amazing book.
In The Heart of The Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick or The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown
Unbroken: A World War Story of Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
Humankind by Rutger Bregman has a section about the 6 boys from Tonga who got shipwrecked on an island for 15 months.
Trapped Under The Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into Darkness by Neil Swidy is about an unusual commercial diving disaster that has (some) survivors.
Into The Lion’s Mouth: The Story of the Wildrake Diving Accident by Michael Smart is the story of a famous lost bell commercial diving accident. The book can be hard to find but it’s worth it if you can drum up a copy.
h{{Alive by Piers Paul Read}}.
*Into Thin Air* by Jon Krakauer
Aquanaut: The Inside Story of the Thai Cave Rescue
The author was one of the main rescue divers.
The Worst Journey in the World, Cherry-Garrard
The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger.
It would be helpful to know how old you are. There’s a series in paperback called I Survived… and the topics are things like the 1906 earthquake and fire in San Francisco or the sinking of the Titanic. The reading level is around third grade.
In Harm’s Way by Stanton
Marriage at Sea by Elmhirst
Beyond the Deep – Paulsen
Awesome.
I’m not sure if it counts as disaster, but h{{Between a Rock and a Hard Place}} is what the movie 127 hours is based on.
“Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Tragedy, and Survival at the Edge of the World” by Eric Jay Dolin
It’s about a group of Americans in the Falkland Islands in 1812 that “rescued” some shipwrecked Britons but then 5 Americans were left on the islands by the British. It’s a kinda complicated story…
Collision on Tenerife by Jon Ziomek
Mawson’s Will–the Endurance guys get all the glory for polar survival stories but Douglas Mawson did it alone, traveling cross country on for, while suffering (I don’t want to spoil it).
There’s a section of the biography of Gene Roddenberry “Star Trek Creator” that describes his experience as a PanAm pilot surviving a crash in the African desert with passengers waiting about a week for rescue. He had an amazing life.
Alive, Piers Paul Reed
River of Doubt