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
Steven Callahan shares his dramatic tale of survival at sea in this undeniable seafaring classic.
His engrossing firsthand account reveals how he survived more than a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his small sloop capsized only six days out.
“Utterly absorbing” (Newsweek), Adrift is a must-have for any
adventure library.
256 pages.