shipwreck
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Thoreau’s account begins not on the Cape, but during his rail journey from Boston, when he joins a band of mourners and gawkers to survey a shipwreck in the town of Cohasset.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
In this longer and more structured form, what began as an intentional scattering of ashes becomes an elegiac letter home mediated by shipwreck.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026
Piscine Molitor Patel, a 16-year-old boy also known as Pi, makes this impassioned declaration to two men struggling to make sense of his account of having survived a shipwreck.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026
She was found near the Maheno shipwreck, which was washed ashore in 1935 and is now a popular tourist landmark.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2026
Experts have determined that it is the world’s oldest shipwreck, and that the vessel has lain undisturbed at the bottom of the sea for more than 2,400 years.
From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler
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