Books like The raft by Robert Trumbull

Ernest Hemingway’s classic follows an old Cuban fisherman and his young companion as they battle a massive marlin, exploring themes of endurance, solitude, and the human struggle against nature.

Three United States Army Air Forces crewmen crash in 1945 New Guinea, survive a rugged jungle odyssey, encounter an untouched tribe, and are rescued by falling paratroopers.

Robie is a seasoned traveler who finds herself in a life-threatening situation on a flight to Hawaii, where she must survive with a new co-pilot and a bag of Skittles.

An account of the dangerous voyage led by Eric de Bisschop from Tahiti to Chile and back to Polynesia -- a foray twice as long as that undertaken by Kon-Tiki and one that encountered greater difficulties and dangers. Like Heyerdahl, de Bisschop undertook his voyage to prove an ethnological theory -- but a theory completely contrary to that of his Norwegian forerunner. Heyerdahl believed that voyagers from South America had visited Polynesia in prehistoric times; de Bisschop was equally certain that Tahitian sea rovers had traveled as far as Chile and Peru. After suffering unbelievable hardships during the first half of the voyage, some of the Tahiti Nui crew abandoned the project, but de Bisschop and Alain Brun, who narrated the story to Bengt Danielsson, continued on their journey, spending thirteen months aboard the most primitive rafts. But despite the inadequacy of their crafts -- all of which had a frightening tendency to break up -- coupled with the dangers of attacking sharks, mutiny, raging storms, and near-starvation, the voyage was completed in record time, but not before tragic death.

A former POW recounts his athletic southern California childhood, participation in the 1936 Olympics, imprisonment and torture by an abusive Japanese guard, descent into alcoholism, and salvation by preacher Billy Graham.

In the Pacific during World II, a B‑17 crew struggles to survive after their aircraft goes down in the ocean while carrying a secret war hero on a vital mission.