...improvised world from whatever flotsam can be salvaged. The shipwrecked characters in JM Barrie's play The Admirable Crichton...house for themselves by recycling bits of their damaged vessel; its steering wheel becomes a chandelier, a lifebuoy...

...sailors in extremis: The Watery Part of the World imagined the shipwrecked crew of a 19th-century whaling ship. So when a colleague suggested...observing the Kursk? Would they have picked up on the Russian vessel's fate and, if so, what could they have done? The ethical...

...and style. Wonderful lines flashed by without the time to absorb and reflect: "France has the reactions of a shipwrecked vessel disturbed in its siesta "; "Acquiescence lights up the face. Refusal gives it beauty "; and the famous...

...private equity can maintain these brands while Ford cannot is blindingly obvious. And, when you're shipwrecked, you don't refuse help from a pirate vessel.The writer is co-founder of Luther Pendragon, a communications consultancyTHE CONSULTANTAlan...

...accept castaways picked up by fishing vessels.Last week the Spanish government was...after a Spanish trawler picked up 25 shipwrecked migrants and a corpse. After three days the fishing vessel was allowed to dock in Tripoli. Spanish...