Great book on how people deal with a shipwreck. Who sticks to the old authority, who emerges as a leader, who tries to rescue themselves and who wants to party until they drop. Ship disappears for two years, then 40 guys in a raft show up 3000 miles away. Tell their story. 6 months later 3 more guys show up on a different side of the continent, tell a different story. 6 months later 3 more guys show up. Who is telling the truth and what is truth?