Description
A tale of courage and determination in the face of almost insurmountable hardship. The New York Times Book Review -- Publisher Comments Steven Callahan is probably best known for the survival experience chronicled in this book, which becamse a best seller and has been translated into 13 languages, but he has also sailed some 70,000 relatively trouble-free offshore miles, including 4 additional Atlantic crossings. After 13 years of first building boats, then designing, teaching design, and writing articles, over the last 13, since Adrift was written, he has concentrated on writing, illustrating and consulting, often about seamanship and survival. He wrote a second book, Capsized, and has contributed to 12 other books. He is a regular contributor to the maritime press and has served as Cruising World magazine's senior editor.
Features & Highlights
- On the night of January 29, 1982, Steven Callahan set sail in his small sloop from the Canary Islands bound for the Caribbean. Thus began one of the most remarkable sea adventures of all time. Six days out, the sloop sank, and Callahan found himself adrift in the Atlantic in a five-and-a-half-foot inflatable raft with only three pounds of food and eight pints of water. He would drift for seventy-six days over eighteen hundred miles of ocean before he reached land and rescue.
- Introduction by Edward E. Leslie, Epilogue by Steven Callahan, drawings and photos
