In 1915 the Antarctic ice crushed Shackleton’s ship Endurance. Twenty-eight men were stranded at the end of the world, and every one of them came home. The true story.
In 1979 a teenager in Assam planted twenty bamboo seedlings on a bare sandbar in the Brahmaputra. He never stopped. The true story of Jadav Payeng, the Forest Man of India.
A simple step-by-step guide to writing your life story, one memory at a time: where to start, which questions to ask, how to organise chapters and how to help a parent write theirs.
In 1921 a young seamstress from Alaska joined an Arctic expedition for $50 a month. Four men died. The true survival story of Ada Blackjack.
In 1960 a new FDA doctor refused to approve thalidomide for 18 months under heavy pressure. The true story of Frances Kelsey and what her no changed.
Five specific questions that open real family stories, why each one works, and how to get the best answers. Plus a free printable list of all 50.
In 2010, 33 miners were trapped 700 metres underground in Chile. Their shift foreman Luis Urzรบa made 48 hours of food last 17 days with one rule: everyone gets the same.
Irena Sendler smuggled Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and hid their real names in glass jars so they could one day be given back. Her documented story.
His grandfather told the same stories hundreds of times and nobody wrote them down. That is why Tale of Life exists: a free way to save your grandparents’ stories, one question at a time.
On her 63rd birthday in 1901, widowed teacher Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survive.
