Podcast
Fresh Air
Corrigan described Elmhurst's account of a 1972 couple adrift after a whale knocked a hole in their sloop, emphasizing their mental resilience and smallscale coping strategies.
A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhurst tells how in 1972 Morris and Marilyn Bailey spent four months adrift in the middle of the Pacific after a whale knocked a hole in their wooden sloop, holding thems...
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Episode: Homelessness In The New Gilded Age
Corrigan described Elmhurst's account of a 1972 couple adrift after a whale knocked a hole in their sloop, emphasizing their mental resilience and smallscale coping strategies.
A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhurst tells how in 1972 Morris and Marilyn Bailey spent four months adrift in the middle of the Pacific after a whale knocked a hole in their wooden sloop, holding themselves together mentally by focusing on small things like the card games that Marilyn devised.