ADRIFT PA
Steven Callahan's account of being stranded alone in the Atlantic is the kind of story that makes you grip the book tighter with every page. Just six days into a solo voyage, his small sloop went down, leaving him with nothing but an inflatable raft and a fierce will to stay alive. What followed was over a month of raw, desperate survival on open water. It's a first-hand narrative that pulls no punches. Callahan writes with an honesty that makes the ordeal feel immediate, almost unbearably close. Short bursts of crisis sit alongside longer passages of quiet, creeping dread, and together they paint a portrait of a man pushed to the very edge of what a human being can endure. Newsweek called it 'utterly absorbing', and it's hard to argue. This is a well-regarded classic of seafaring literature, and it earns that status not through spectacle alone, but through the sheer weight of lived experience behind it. Any reader with a taste for adventure writing will find it a worthy addition to their shelves.
- Author: Steven Callahan
- Publisher: HarperCollins
- Genre: Pet Care & Training
- ISBN: 978-0618257324
- Pages: 256 pages