The Story Compared To Other Famous Survival Accounts

In the long history of survival literature — from ancient shipwreck accounts to modern disaster narratives — Marguerite de la Rocque’s story occupies a distinctive position.

She is sometimes mentioned alongside other famous castaways and survivors: Robinson Crusoe’s fictional character, who was partly inspired by the real-life experience of Alexander Selkirk, stranded on a Pacific island in the early 1700s.

The survivors of various shipwrecks and colonial disasters that dot the literature of the age of exploration.

More recent survival accounts like those of Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic expedition or the Donner Party’s ordeal in the Sierra Nevada.