In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him, when a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village.
Orphaned after a shipwreck off the Victorian coast of Australia, the spirited Philadelphia Gordon finds both love and adventure aboard a paddle-steamer on the Murray River.
The story of the ill-fated ocean liner and the sinking that made it infamous.
Two groups of teens get shipwrecked on a deserted island in the Stockholm archipelago and try to create a new society in order to survive.