Shipwrecks precipitate those involved in them, without warning and against their will, into great adventures. This collection of shipwreck narratives, drawn from all ages and climes, is intended to salute not merely the acts of fortitude and incredible endurance to be found there, but many ingenious shifts and improvisations by which hardships are overcome. Some of the victims have found their way home in a matter of days, others have been marooned in a strange land to eat the bread of exile for twenty years or more...