Adrift
Seventysix Days Lost at Sea
by Steven Callahan
Should I read this?
appears in Adventure Travel, Nonfiction Adventure, and Sailing.
Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan's dramatic tale of survival at sea was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than thirtysix weeks. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survi...
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appears in Adventure Travel, Nonfiction Adventure, and Sailing.
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