Discover the most harrowing survival stories throughout modern history in this riveting collection from celebrated author Cara Tabachnick.

• Juliane Koepcke, the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Peruvian Amazon
• Jose Salvador Alvarenga, who floated for 13 months alone in the Pacific ocean
• Aron Ralston, who cut off his arm to escape the canyon he’d been trapped in
• Lincoln Hall, who was abandoned on Mount Everest
• ...and many more.

Cara Tabachnick is a journalist who writes and reports and writing about global criminal justice systems, focusing on police, prisons and drugs. She has written for publications such as Marie Claire, "O" Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian, and Scientific American. She has written a true-crime series for Harper Collins UK based on FBI Most Wanted Cases.

From 2008-2015 she was the Deputy Director of the Center on Media, Crime and Justice at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. While there, she also served as the Managing Editor of its daily news service, The Crime Report.

She is a graduate of Columbia University’s School of Journalism and splits her time between Brooklyn and Spain. This is her first foray into writing about survivor stories.