Surviving Coincidental History: First edition

From the appearance of the book's cover, the reader would be forgiven for assuming that this is just another tale about a rescue at sea. The author discovers, after his near fatal experience in the Indian Ocean off the Cocos Islands, that he has unwittingly become part of a two-hundred-year-old recurring twist of fate. Directly related to two ancestors living centuries apart, with the same family name, who both coincidentally suffered the same fate in the same part of the Atlantic Ocean off...