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...waterline. Within an hour, the couple-who had been on their way from native England to New Zealand-embarked on a spectacular survival adventure in a round, covered rubber raft roped to a nine-foot dinghy. The publisher claims that the Baileys set a record-117 days*-for time adrift following a shipwreck. Though each lost about 40 pounds, suffered vitamin deficiencies and the raft-man's excruciating equivalent of bed sores, their condition was far from critical when they were picked up by a Korean fishing boat 1,500 miles from the site of the sinking. The Baileys...
After 72 hours adrift, the Q.E. 2 family was eventually transferred to the Norwegian cruise ship Sea Venture, which had only 150 cabins available. Most of the Elizabethans had to sleep on chairs or the deck. Again, free drinks -this time with ice-and hot food helped soothe rising tempers. Landed after 15 hours in Hamilton, Bermuda, the Q.E. 2 passengers were given hotel rooms where they could shower for the first time in three days. Then, after being ceremoniously presented with complete refunds for their fares (up to $1,000), they were bundled aboard chartered jets...
...Europe's speaking with a strong and effective voice in the world, it can only be in the political form advocated by France: a compact between the states, not some faceless amalgam of regions governed by a parliamentary regime of bankrupt political parties, speaking Esperanto and cast adrift from their rich cultural and intellectual heritages...
...months later and 200 miles west of the Galápagos Islands, his yacht was hit by killer whales and sank in one minute. Robertson, his wife Lyn, their three sons, Douglas, 18, and the twins Neil and Sandy, 12, and a Welsh student guest, Robin Williams, 22, were adrift on the Pacific...
Some Americans who have read The Tale of Kieu in French have objected to its "unhappy" ending. Although Kieu had pledged to marry the scholar Kim Trong, she found upon her return from 15 years adrift that she could not sustain more than a platonic relationship. At the time the disaster struck Kieu's family, Kim had been performing mourning rites for a relative in a distant province for several years. Kieu's parents and her sister Van, whom she had asked to marry Kim before she left home, insisted that Kieu follow through with her marriage pledge. Kieu finally...