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OverviewOn January 16, 1942, three men boarded a single-engine aircraft for an antisubmarine patrol flight. They became lost and when the fuel ran low, they decided to ditch into the Pacific. Before they could inflate their life raft, the plane sank beneath them, carrying with it most of the survival gear. Thirty-four days later the raft landed on an atoll in the Danger Islands, having meandered 1,200 miles. The story of the voyage, with few resources except courage is a tribute to the human species and its will to survive. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robert Trumbull , Tom ParkerPublisher: Penton Overseas Inc Imprint: Penton Overseas Inc Edition: Library ed. Dimensions: Width: 17.00cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 24.20cm Weight: 0.335kg ISBN: 9780786110087ISBN 10: 0786110082 Publication Date: December 1996 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Mixed media product Publisher's Status: Inactive Availability: Out of stock Table of ContentsReviewsThis will come down in history as one of the great - almost miraculous achievements of men against the sea . Thirty four days under tropical sun adrift in the Pacific in a rubber host, with no food, no water, no equipment, and - towards the end ?? no clothes. Vice-president Wallace spoke of this as the story that generations of Americans will be telling their children to illustrate man's ability to master any fate . Most of you will remember the dramatic news story last Spring; some of you will have read it in Life. Robert Trumbull, a reporter who had the luck to be with Dixon and Aldrich and Pastula during their concalescence, has told the story as Dixon told it to him. There are no dramatics - other than the amazing facts of each day; there is no dressing up of the bald details of how a miniature scale and a life jacket attached by the guard rope made an elementary form of navigation possible, of how the rubber ??soles of his shoes did makeshift duty as oar blades, of how one boy scout pen-knife served as weapon for occasional spearing of fish - and of how sheer guts and stout heartedness carried them through to a friendly island shore. It is good to have this story in a form accessible to all. But don't sell it as a literary masterpiece. (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |