The Woman Who Survived A Shipwreck, Starvation, And Isolation — The Incredible Story Of Marguerite De La Rocque
The historical Marguerite de la Rocque was not a symbol or a moral lesson.
She was a woman who survived extraordinary conditions through a combination of intelligence, physical capability, faith, and whatever luck intervened in the form of the fishermen who eventually found her.
The difficulty of recovering the historical person from the accumulated weight of her representation in the literary record is a challenge that historians have faced for centuries, and it remains a challenge today.
What The Sources Agree On — And What They Don’t
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