Sole Survivor

by Ruthanne Lum McCunn

Book Overview

When German U-boats sank the British Ben Lomond in 1942, its sole survivor was a second steward, Poon Lim, who managed to stay alive for 133 days on a wooden raft. Sole Survivor, based on three years... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590436058
• ISBN13: 9780590436052
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.1" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Spine tingling

Must have been a very good book, read it almost straight thru, stopping only for lunch. The author has spun a marvelous tale out of minimal information, many years after it happened. Could Poon Lim ever eat fish again? A diagram of the raft and a better description might have helped the reader, at the start. It wasn't that complex, but somehow the author made it overly complex, with wells, ledges, and so forth. Otherwise a fine book.

A Bad Hair Day

Great story and well written. Gives good insight into Asian culture of the time. Don't miss this one.

Fantastic detail

I read this book when I was eleven years old. Now, at twenty, I still remember it as a fascinating account of day to day life lost at sea. The accounts of sores and the raging thirst that the man experienced were mesmerizing as well as repugnant. This book made the utter lonliness of being lost at sea almost real.I especially enjoyed the strict attention to detail and descriptions of how the main character dealt with obtaining water and fish.

Pretty Interesting, but kinda boring

An interesting account of a guy lost at sea. Pretty amazing story, but could have been told better. TRUE STORY though.