audiobook Gullah History Along the Carolina Lowcountry by Thomas Pyatt in History

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Terry Jo Duperrault was 11 when her family was murdered at sea aboard a chartered sailboat off the coast of Florida. She jumped overboard just in time to escape. Surviving four days on a cork float in the middle of the ocean; Terry Jo's rescue pictures graced LIFE Magazine soon after she was found. This is the first time Terry Jo; now known as Tere Duperrault Fassbender; has been able to fully tell her story. In September 1988 Oprah Winfrey reunited her with the freighter Captain who saved her; but even then; she was not healed enough to reveal what it took to survive for four days adrift and alone at sea. Co-authored by psychologist and survival expert Richard Logan; readers delve into the details of how a little girl survived the murder of her family; the gradual collapse of the small cork float she used to keep afloat while guarded by a pod of whales; and the aftermath and the reclamation of life. Alone: Orphaned on the Ocean is the ultimate inspirational tale of good. (Richard Logan; PhD and Tere Duperrault Fassbender)