"Cast Away recounts, often in their own words, the epic tales of the survivors of shipwreck, mutiny and marooning through the ages and around the globe, focusing on the age of sail and steam.

Cast Away Stones, the first book in the series, is about friendships worth dying for, that cross time and racial boundaries, and speak to humanity today.

Incredibly intense, poignant and filled with humor in dark times, A Cast Away is one of the most emotional, gripping and honest stories of a real-life event you will ever read.

Cast Away tells of Jeremy's transformation from a spoiled aristocrat to a respectful nobleman not only because of his time marooned on an island, but also because of the woman he finds there.

Incredibly intense, poignant and filled with humor in dark times, A Cast Away is one of the most emotional, gripping and honest stories of a real-life event you will ever read.

Six kids on a geography trip are cut off by the sea. One of them is hurt and it's the middle of the night.

Cast Away began in 1994 when Fox executive Elizabeth Gabler told me that Tom Hanks thought there might be a movie in the story of a modern man stranded on a desert island...which Tom jokingly called 'Chuck of the Jungle'.