What The Story Reveals About Survival Itself

One of the most important things that Marguerite de la Rocque’s story reveals is something about the nature of survival over extended periods in isolation.

Short-term survival — the kind that forms the basis of most wilderness survival training and most popular survival literature — is primarily about making the right immediate decisions: finding water, signaling for rescue, avoiding the most immediately dangerous situations.

It requires skill, knowledge, and judgment.