The Woman Who Survived A Shipwreck, Starvation, And Isolation — The Incredible Story Of Marguerite De La Rocque
How long she survived alone before rescue arrived is one of the questions the historical record does not answer with complete precision.
The estimates in various accounts place her total time on the island at somewhere between two and a half and three years — a span that means she was not only getting through a difficult situation but was maintaining the physical and mental capacity to survive over multiple seasons.
This is extraordinary.
It is not a tale of surviving for a few weeks before help arrived.
It is a tale of surviving, alone, through multiple winters, in the Gulf of St.