The Woman Who Survived A Shipwreck, Starvation, And Isolation — The Incredible Story Of Marguerite De La Rocque
She was cast aside.
She survived.
And the world that cast her aside has had to reckon with the fact of her survival ever since.
That is why her story still resonates.
Not because she was extraordinary in any way that the people who abandoned her would have predicted or acknowledged.
But because she was extraordinary in exactly the way that the people who abandoned her did not expect: she was capable of surviving them.
The World She Left Behind