Hi! I'm going through a rough patch right now and am looking for a nonfiction story that nods to humans making it through adverse situations. A great example is Endurance, which is about The Endurance ship that sunk in the early 1900s and the 28 sailors who survived in the Weddell Sea for months and months. Doesn't necessarily need to be related to survival situations but I love that story, and I'm looking for similar books. Again, nonfiction preferred. Thanks!
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Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins
Surprisingly, “The Indifferent Stars Above” by Daniel J. Brown. It’s a nonfiction account of the Donner Party, which wouldn’t immediately strike someone as an uplifting tale of perseverance, but it isn’t overly gruesome and the author does a remarkable job of illustrating just how tough and resilient those people were.
The Myth of Sisyphus (Camus) is expressly about not giving up, but it’s an ethical exploration of suicide rather than a specific story about an event. One of my very favorite books.