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Shipwrecked!
WHEN DISASTER STRIKES AT SEA Silas finds himself surrounded by an unruly and unprepared mob of fellow passengers that consider it someone else’s job to take care of them. Unfortunately, the crew is overwhelmed and the ship’s supplies of food and water are limited so the chance of that happening are virtually non-existant. But if they can avoid killing each other and work together long enough there is a chance to survive and not be victims even though they’ve been shipwrecked! ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jerry D Young was born at home, in Senath, Missouri July 3, 1953. At age 5 the family rented a small farm house on an active farm 40 miles southwest of St. Louis. While the family weren't farmers, they lived something of a homestead type life, raising a milk cow, sometimes two, and calves, a pig or two, chickens, and the occasional goat. Along with the stock, a large garden helped to feed Jerry's three brothers and two sisters for several years. Fishing and hunting contributed to the pantry, as did foraging the wild edibles on the property. At the age of 14, the family, minus a brother and two sisters that were now adults and on their own, moved back to Senath. Having been encouraged from an early age to read, Jerry was a regular patron of the Senath Branch Library. A love of a good story was born within him, and shortly before graduating high school, for a lack of stories that he liked at the library, he began to write short vignettes, and started taking notes for stories that he wanted to tell. Well, a full life interceded, and the writing didn't resume for several years. But while working a job with a much free time, and the then newfangled home computer, Jerry began to write in earnest. With the occasional gap in the process, Jerry continued to research and write, never believing he could ever be published. But when he turned 50, he wanted a change in his life, left the job he was doing and began focusing on his writing. When he became ill, the writing stopped, but not the inspiration. When he started writing again, in 2004, after getting the medical problems under control, he began to read some on-line stories dealing with emergency preparedness, one of his other loves. The die was cast. Now with over a hundred of the vignettes and short stories about how to survive disasters written, along with his other novels, Jerry decided to go for broke, adding one of his previous works every few days to his list of stories now available, Jerry continues to write, both the Prep/PAW stories, as well as action adventure with a little romance type stories that first got him started.
414 pages, Paperback
First published December 3, 2003
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Jerry D. Young
153 books29 followersJerry D Young was born at home, in Senath, Missouri July 3, 1953. At age 5 the family rented a small farm house on an active farm 40 miles southwest of St. Louis. While the family weren't farmers, they lived something of a homestead type life, raising a milk cow, sometimes two, and calves, a pig or two, chickens, and the occasional goat. Along with the stock, a large garden helped to feed Jerry's three brothers and two sisters for several years. Fishing and hunting contributed to the pantry, as did foraging the wild edibles on the property.
At the age of 14, the family, minus a brother and two sisters that were now adults and on their own, moved back to Senath. Having been encouraged from an early age to read, Jerry was a regular patron of the Senath Branch Library.
A love of a good story was born within him, and shortly before graduating high school, for a lack of stories that he liked at the library, he began to write short vignettes, and started taking notes for stories that he wanted to tell. Well, a full life interceded, and the writing didn't resume for several years.
But while working a job with a much free time, and the then newfangled home computer, Jerry began to write in earnest. With the occasional gap in the process, Jerry continued to research and write, never believing he could ever be published. But when he turned 50, he wanted a change in his life, left the job he was doing and began focusing on his writing.
When he became ill, the writing stopped, but not the inspiration. When he started writing again, in 2004, after getting the medical problems under control, he began to read some on-line stories dealing with emergency preparedness, one of his other loves. The die was cast. Now with over a hundred of the vignettes and short stories about how to survive disasters written, along with his other novels, Jerry decided to go for broke, adding one of his previous works every few days to his list of stories now available, Jerry continues to write, both the Prep/PAW stories, as well as action adventure with a little romance type stories that first got him started.
At the age of 14, the family, minus a brother and two sisters that were now adults and on their own, moved back to Senath. Having been encouraged from an early age to read, Jerry was a regular patron of the Senath Branch Library.
A love of a good story was born within him, and shortly before graduating high school, for a lack of stories that he liked at the library, he began to write short vignettes, and started taking notes for stories that he wanted to tell. Well, a full life interceded, and the writing didn't resume for several years.
But while working a job with a much free time, and the then newfangled home computer, Jerry began to write in earnest. With the occasional gap in the process, Jerry continued to research and write, never believing he could ever be published. But when he turned 50, he wanted a change in his life, left the job he was doing and began focusing on his writing.
When he became ill, the writing stopped, but not the inspiration. When he started writing again, in 2004, after getting the medical problems under control, he began to read some on-line stories dealing with emergency preparedness, one of his other loves. The die was cast. Now with over a hundred of the vignettes and short stories about how to survive disasters written, along with his other novels, Jerry decided to go for broke, adding one of his previous works every few days to his list of stories now available, Jerry continues to write, both the Prep/PAW stories, as well as action adventure with a little romance type stories that first got him started.
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January 26, 2023
AMAZING STORY
This is an amazing story, a cruise ship is going down and only 1 person is thinking clearly. He begins to gather his items that he thinks will be of use, and then as the ship empties of people and crew he then makes a plan to help everyone else that went b4 him to the island. He makes a raft, and loads it up with useful items, securing everything he could find to the raft. And while he is working on all that, the ship is slowly sinking, he gets off just in time, and follows behind the others, all of the others that survived landed on one beach and this guy landed on another. You have to read this amazing story to find out what happens… I am going to look for anymore books
by this Author, JERRY D. YOUNG MY NEW ALL-TIME FAVORITE AUTHOR.
This is an amazing story, a cruise ship is going down and only 1 person is thinking clearly. He begins to gather his items that he thinks will be of use, and then as the ship empties of people and crew he then makes a plan to help everyone else that went b4 him to the island. He makes a raft, and loads it up with useful items, securing everything he could find to the raft. And while he is working on all that, the ship is slowly sinking, he gets off just in time, and follows behind the others, all of the others that survived landed on one beach and this guy landed on another. You have to read this amazing story to find out what happens… I am going to look for anymore books
by this Author, JERRY D. YOUNG MY NEW ALL-TIME FAVORITE AUTHOR.
January 22, 2023
A Great Story And Happy Ending
No big spoiler, but things do work out in the end. And THAT is what great feelings are made of.
Very well written, as is almost every one of Young’s books. Great character development, so you not only identify with them, you feel you know how they will react to the next situation. That is craft, dear readers.
Descriptions are full, but not wordy, verbose. Just enough to paint a comprehensible picture but no so much that the pace of the story bogs down. Again, craft.
Read this story.
No big spoiler, but things do work out in the end. And THAT is what great feelings are made of.
Very well written, as is almost every one of Young’s books. Great character development, so you not only identify with them, you feel you know how they will react to the next situation. That is craft, dear readers.
Descriptions are full, but not wordy, verbose. Just enough to paint a comprehensible picture but no so much that the pace of the story bogs down. Again, craft.
Read this story.
March 27, 2024
Island Craziness
This hero was not very likable most of the time but the story was very interesting. It was survival of the host of people on the island and learning resourcefulness in a different kind of disaster. Graphic at times but realistic. I don’t think I could ever marry a “Silas” but I would like to have his handiness around.
This hero was not very likable most of the time but the story was very interesting. It was survival of the host of people on the island and learning resourcefulness in a different kind of disaster. Graphic at times but realistic. I don’t think I could ever marry a “Silas” but I would like to have his handiness around.
September 12, 2025
Cheeky but fun story…
Another great Jerry D Young story, that follows in his traditional style but diverts enough to be really fresh. This book allowed him to use his sense of humor more than previous stories I’ve read of his. Either way, this is a thoroughly enjoyable yarn with a smattering of educational elements. Get it and read it…you won’t regret it.
Another great Jerry D Young story, that follows in his traditional style but diverts enough to be really fresh. This book allowed him to use his sense of humor more than previous stories I’ve read of his. Either way, this is a thoroughly enjoyable yarn with a smattering of educational elements. Get it and read it…you won’t regret it.
January 14, 2021
Great story
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. A well written book, encouraging and intriguing, always without the unnecessary cursing! Proof that an intelligent mind doesn't need such to keep one's interest. Thanks again to this author. On to another of his books!
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. A well written book, encouraging and intriguing, always without the unnecessary cursing! Proof that an intelligent mind doesn't need such to keep one's interest. Thanks again to this author. On to another of his books!
February 10, 2024
Great adventure and wonderful characters. Not jerry young usual stuff.
I really enjoyed this story. It is spell binding and I lost sleep because I couldn't put it down. I am sure I will read it again.
I really enjoyed this story. It is spell binding and I lost sleep because I couldn't put it down. I am sure I will read it again.
August 24, 2025
Definitely not what I expected from Jerry D. Young, but an enjoyable read not withstanding!!!
July 26, 2012
If I could give this book a half star I would. While there was a somewhat interesting plot the poor writing, even worse editing, and constant shift in tense and writing style, this book became unbearablly difficult to read, much less enjoy.
This book is the perfect example of why one should not self publish. Throughout the book proper names are not capitalized, quotes are not used, instead for some strange reason the author used <<>> instead of "" marks. Why? Words and sentences are strangly hyphenated and the over use of periods instead of commas and strange breaking off of words at the end of a sentence, really made the story hard to follow. There are times that complete thoughts are missing from sentences, it felt like the author was thinking faster then he could write and left out portions of the sentence.
It is very clear that no one did a second read of this manuscript before it was published.
This book is the perfect example of why one should not self publish. Throughout the book proper names are not capitalized, quotes are not used, instead for some strange reason the author used <<>> instead of "" marks. Why? Words and sentences are strangly hyphenated and the over use of periods instead of commas and strange breaking off of words at the end of a sentence, really made the story hard to follow. There are times that complete thoughts are missing from sentences, it felt like the author was thinking faster then he could write and left out portions of the sentence.
It is very clear that no one did a second read of this manuscript before it was published.
November 13, 2015
Shipwrecked on a small deserted Island
I loved this survival book from begging to the end. It kept my interest. If you like to read survival fiction this is a great read.
JoAnna Gaumond
I loved this survival book from begging to the end. It kept my interest. If you like to read survival fiction this is a great read.
JoAnna Gaumond
May 28, 2015
Three Stars
This was an OK read. Some parts drug and some scenes were way too long. I thought the Gilligan's Island reference was too corny.
This was an OK read. Some parts drug and some scenes were way too long. I thought the Gilligan's Island reference was too corny.
October 21, 2015
The best
I have to say that out of all Kerry's stories I have read so far I think this one is definitely the best!!!
I have to say that out of all Kerry's stories I have read so far I think this one is definitely the best!!!
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